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    National Service Should Bring Rewards For A Lifetime

    A national program, intended to encourage young people (say, 2 years' time between the ages of 18 and 27) to spend a period of their lives, that is devoted to the service of their country, is a good...
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    "You can do a lot of things with bayonets; but one thing you can't do is sit on them.

    What is missing in all this discussion is common sense (The Thomas Paine variety).

    The United States didn't have to do it! We didn't have to invade Iraq and destroy its infrastructure. But even...
  3. Idigenous people are invisible to the Colonists

    To Herzl and the millions of Zionists who have followed him, the Palestinians were invisible, simply because their existence did not matter. The very idea that indigenous people mattered at all did...
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    Blame it on Night Vision capability!

    Our night vision capability gives our forces such a distinct advantage over the insurgents and the Taliban, that we can't pass up the opportunity to use it. The trouble is that we don't know when/how...
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    If...If...If...If !!! If the ports of...

    If...If...If...If !!!

    If the ports of Haiphong and Vinh Thinh had been closed by the U.S. Navy in 1965, and not left open until 1972....

    If the B-52s had leveled North Vietnam's...
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    We once had this figured out very well.

    I believe that the U.S. Military had figured out very well how to balance the need for counter-insurgency specialists and conventional combat forces. By the end of the Vietnam era, the Army returned...
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    2 Squads: 1 for fire suppression; 1 for the assault.

    I began re-thinking the way infantrymen should be organized to fight and which battle drill techniques should be used in various combat situations a little over 12 years ago, when one of my...
  8. 2 Blind Men And An Elephant

    Regarding WW II, you could have added that there were instances when the newly-arrived troops were sent forward by veterans to draw fire. The veterans had bonded; and saw no purpose in risking their...
  9. Rotate Replacements, Not Units

    I recognize that there is something real and valuable about unit integrity. At the start of every hostile conflict, the military is in the ideal position to deploy units whose officers and men have...
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    The debate should be about the mix; not either/or.

    I suspect that the proponents of "fight to win", as Mr. Hoagland describes them, are more committed to the goal of keeping "boots on the ground" in Iraq than they are to any particular type of force...
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