Re: Ken Smith: A Republican???

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Smith says...
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>Iraq is going about as badly as
>the competent military man -- who has actually read Sun Tzu -- might
>have expected

On the contrary, our ability to gather, analyze, and share tactical information
electronically allows us to fulfill Sun Tzu's dream of a common picture of the
battle.  And Sun Tzu prescribed a strategy of indirection founded on the concept
that "normal forces" should fix or distract the enemy though head-on engagements
while "extraordinary forces" operated on the enemy's flanks, probing for weak
spots and striking when the opportunity presented itself.  The United States
used air power to pummel Iraqi ground units from aloft while allowing the 3rd
Infantry Division and the 1st Marines to function in the exploitive role.

>and we shouldn't have gone in there guns ablaze when
>we did, with no international backing (iirc, Iceland, Belgium, and some
>South Seas island that even I'd never heard of before were part of the
>"international coalition") to speak of.  

Stormin' Norman said that going to war without France was like going deer
hunting without an accordian.  None of the allies you sought have the warrior
spirit of the American fighting man.  Lessons learned from constant warfare has
made us very good at what we do.

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