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    Council Member Ken White's Avatar
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    Default We learned it long before that...

    Quote Originally Posted by TLoder View Post
    Effective combat should always contain an element and concept of swift rotations. We learned this after Vietnam.
    We also relearned it in WW I, relearned it in WW II, relearned it in Korea, relearned it in Viet Nam ...

    Now we get to relearn it again.

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    The US has never been big on pulling units out of the line for rest periods. Goes all the way back to the Civil War, and most likely before that as well.
    "On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
    T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War

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