Bill should put this one up on the blog:
We CAN now ALL get along, CAN'T we!?!
I bet we'd still get dissenting opinions
I agree with Rob and Old Man (I mean Eagle).
Tom
Bill should put this one up on the blog:
We CAN now ALL get along, CAN'T we!?!
I bet we'd still get dissenting opinions
I agree with Rob and Old Man (I mean Eagle).
Tom
"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
Bob Gates wroteNuff said. I can die happy. Common sense at it's best.War is inevitably tragic, inefficient, and uncertain, and it is important to be skeptical of systems analyses, computer models, game theories, or doctrines that suggest otherwise. We should look askance at idealistic, triumphalist, or ethnocentric notions of future conflict that aspire to transcend the immutable principles and ugly realities of war, that imagine it is possible to cow, shock, or awe an enemy into submission, instead of tracking enemies down hilltop by hilltop, house by house, block by bloody block. As General William Tecumseh Sherman said, "Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster."
... but I'll bet the agenda monkeys will still managed to screw it up...
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
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