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Race's work has been highly influential in the study of war, revolution and social change. Barbara Tuchman acknowledged his contribution to her plan for writing The March of Folly.  Rhodes Scholar John Nagl  in the foreword to Carter Malkasian's War Comes to Garmser (his title repurposed for Afghanistan from Race's for Vietnam), wrote "In 1972, Jeffrey Race published War Comes to Long An, a first-person analysis of the war in Vietnam. It was a stunningly original work on war, observed from the inside by an American who was deeply embedded in the language, culture, and politics of the province. Race was a former Army officer who lived in Long An for four years conducting research that became his doctoral dissertation. The book he published is cited as a classic in the 2006 US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual ; for forty years it has had no equal in the depth of understanding it provided of an internal struggle for the soul of a very small place. Carter Malkasian has followed in his footsteps 

Amazon cites Race as one of the top ten military theorists of all time. 

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This request needs to be made in the article's talk page. I would move this request myself but I'm not sure which article it is meant for. Please advise. 0.82em 16:49, 11 April 2018 (UTC)