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Date Posted: 08:59:49 03/11/03 Tue
Author: Khronos
Author Host/IP: ip-66-80-65-31.dsl.sea.megapath.net / 66.80.65.31
Subject: Nice post...
In reply to: Kilus 's message, "Couldn't be bothered finding the post, here is a repost" on 07:16:09 03/11/03 Tue

Who knows it might be accurate? The 101st Airborn always sees a lot of action and a guy in that outfit would no doubt have seen operations like that.

The most annoying thing about that post (other than the writer's cowardice, understandable, I suppose, as it may be) was the implied total lack of understanding for military tactics the US exhibited during the Vietnam War (if this post is any indication of what really went on). That was the real waste in my opinion, letting politicians hold sway over the army. Big mistake. Even Lincoln knew that he was no military tactician and that he had to rely on people trained in the art of war. He understood what he needed to do, but he also knew he lacked the understanding to make military decisions. He spent half of the war trying to find the right people to make those decisions for him, but when he finally found them he gave them his fukll backing and confidence.

Anyway military doctrine mandates that you never attack an enemy who occupies the better ground. You do whatever you have to do to entice him down so that he relinquishes that ground. Marching soldiers up a hill into waiting guns, traps, explosives, is an all around bad idea.

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