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The invention of nukes screwed up everything. Before they came along military campaigns could be followed through to a satisfactory conclusion, but from 1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union...

Domestic U.S. politics were a major factor in LBJ's decision to send combat battalions to Vietnam; the first to arrive there were Marines to secure the airbase at Da Nang in March 1965. Truman,...

The main strategic error was in not having a strategy, other than the hope that attrition would wear down the NVA and VC. The Harry Summers book On Strategy has a Clausewitzian critique of how the...

As I understand it the reason we sent in combat troops in 1964 was as a short-range expedient to avoid losing, and our ratcheting up of the effort went on from there. I believe it was the spectre of...

Although during the Civil War a guy with my Mother's maiden name, Utterback, served with Mosby, by that time my branch of the family, Utterback, had moved from Virginia and was then living in...

By the way, Jackson and Jonathan Letterman, the Medical Department guy who developed modern casualty evacuation, served together in Florida at the tail-end of the Seminole problems and were close...

One has to wonder whether current military personnel policies filter out some promising talent. Before the Civil War while a student at the University of Virginia Mosby, a little skinny guy, shot...

JMA, being the shameless self-promoter that I am :o , click here to read the thread I started on John S. Mosby. A collateral relative of mine (mother's maiden name) rode with him in the very last...

Last August Richard H. Sinnreich (Colonel, USA, Ret) cast some doubt on COIN doctrine in his column in the Lawton Constitution, Lawton, Oklahoma. He's a doctrine writer from way back but to the best...