Everything worth knowing I learned in Kindergarten *...
With apologies to Robert Fulghum.
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Bob's World
"Well, in my experience, not everything worth knowing was discovered yesterday (Thinking of Ken, of course), and headed back to work.
Like Wilf, I'll take that as a compliment, at least I'm making you think and that's the idea. :D
If you kids have come up with anything new, I've yet to see it. Seriously. Though I did like your latest slide...
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This is why I like Galula very much. And Jomini as well for that matter.
1. This explains so much about BOB'S WORLD. (If you liked those mediocrities you'll love Kitson)...;)
2. I long ago bought and read and have reread but really have little use for Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice and while Jomini has had perhaps more influence than Clausewitz (thus making Wilf's comment quite correct), the Jomini approach to strategy is way too rigid IMO and I believe that neither has many, much less all, the answers today. Proving that even old dogs know there are new tricks -- even if many of them are not worth much. :wry:
3. Better, I think, of the older gentlemen (even older than I...) is Moritz Graf von Sachsen -- Maurice, Comte de Saxe -- his Reveries (LINK)should be in the SOCOM library.
Does CentCom have a Library too? Does MacDill AFB also have a Library?
* Korea, 1950...:D
You can still make a mint form the SBW book
but I know why you provided that last link. Forget it. I am not gonna arm rassle you over the water from the Chatahoochee! :D