Airpower is all well and good. So are nukes, for that matter.
Back in the 1950s many pundits, especially in the USAF, argued that nuclear weapons made ground forces obsolete. An American general replied “You will always need some poor bastard, with a bayonet on the end of his rifle, to winkle the other poor bastard out of his foxhole and make him sign the peace treaty”.
I doubt that that will ever change, even if the bayonet is a monoblade on the business end of a bead rifle.
How else to crack through Americans’ everlasting sentiments against war even when it is clearly needed. This reaction by US citizens mimics what my mother taught me about my father’s (naturalized US citizen of Canadian parents) relationship with his family back in the Toronto Canada area. They were pushing the British side of the war, of course. The US was all WC Fields, “Go away, boy, you bother me.”
Americans always seem to think the enemy has no say in the matter when war is involved. Sorry, guys, the enemy gets a vote. And I am crazy enough to take a nation’s government at it’s word when it says it plans to destroy the US utterly AND is working towards nuclear weapons.
One thing I notice his how close Trump came to earning that TACO nickname. He REALLY does not want war. He just got stretched too far, Israel created the occasion, then Israel created the vacuum only the US could fill, and finally Trump rose to the need of the times.
Considering the amount of trouble our isolationism has gotten us into over two and a half centuries and more MAYBE this time we can stop with merely a 6 pack of bunker-busters. God, I hope so. The other three in the axis of evil are in more need of heavy attention now than Iran, Leave Iran to Israel while we keep the lid on Putin, Pooh Jinping, and wozname from the Dork Empire (North of South Korea). What they do at home is not our concern unless it affects world stability. When they mess with world stability they need chastisement, perhaps at a regime destabilization level. Then let the natives seize or not their chance.
Mark the stock prices of the military-industrial complex companies now and in two months. Standby for Anduril to drop its IPO. Business will be booming. And please, pray for our men and women in combat arms. Let 45-47 be wise enough to tell the Neocons to piss off. Let Israel decaptitate the bastards.
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Then is not now.
Learn from history so as not to repeat it.
But do not let history cripple you or kill you.
Airpower is all well and good. So are nukes, for that matter.
Back in the 1950s many pundits, especially in the USAF, argued that nuclear weapons made ground forces obsolete. An American general replied “You will always need some poor bastard, with a bayonet on the end of his rifle, to winkle the other poor bastard out of his foxhole and make him sign the peace treaty”.
I doubt that that will ever change, even if the bayonet is a monoblade on the business end of a bead rifle.
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How else to crack through Americans’ everlasting sentiments against war even when it is clearly needed. This reaction by US citizens mimics what my mother taught me about my father’s (naturalized US citizen of Canadian parents) relationship with his family back in the Toronto Canada area. They were pushing the British side of the war, of course. The US was all WC Fields, “Go away, boy, you bother me.”
Americans always seem to think the enemy has no say in the matter when war is involved. Sorry, guys, the enemy gets a vote. And I am crazy enough to take a nation’s government at it’s word when it says it plans to destroy the US utterly AND is working towards nuclear weapons.
One thing I notice his how close Trump came to earning that TACO nickname. He REALLY does not want war. He just got stretched too far, Israel created the occasion, then Israel created the vacuum only the US could fill, and finally Trump rose to the need of the times.
Considering the amount of trouble our isolationism has gotten us into over two and a half centuries and more MAYBE this time we can stop with merely a 6 pack of bunker-busters. God, I hope so. The other three in the axis of evil are in more need of heavy attention now than Iran, Leave Iran to Israel while we keep the lid on Putin, Pooh Jinping, and wozname from the Dork Empire (North of South Korea). What they do at home is not our concern unless it affects world stability. When they mess with world stability they need chastisement, perhaps at a regime destabilization level. Then let the natives seize or not their chance.
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Great ro hear these comments, illuminating.
Some tend to forget the ‘other poor bastard’ will fight for his country just as hard as we’d fight for ours upon seeing foreign boots on our ground.
Dejah Thoris, America’s future girlfriend
Mark the stock prices of the military-industrial complex companies now and in two months. Standby for Anduril to drop its IPO. Business will be booming. And please, pray for our men and women in combat arms. Let 45-47 be wise enough to tell the Neocons to piss off. Let Israel decaptitate the bastards.
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