Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
An interesting, short commentary by Anne Applebaum, the sub-title says it all:

As a historian, with a book on the Ukraine, she writes well:

Link:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...ow_russia.html
It is amazing that by merely removing patches from the uniforms of their troops, or by sending them in in plain clothes wearing balaclavas the Russians can so completely flummox and paralyze the West. It is like the guy on the wanted poster tells the cop 'No that's not me. The guy on the poster is wearing a hat and I'm not.' and the cop says 'Oh yeah. You're right. You don't have a hat on.' and then let's him go.

Anne Applebaum's book The Iron Curtain is a wonderful book that has many many small war lessons to be learned. Of course some of those things can only be used by regimes of brutal killers.