Re: Ken Smith: A Republican???

"Teresita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ken Smith says...
> >
> >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.
>
>
Don't forget what happenned to the Romans     Rgds Ken



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