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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Why We Win

WHY WE WIN



Private Boris

One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine*...
- From a Soviet Junior Lt's (Cold War) Notebook


* media propaganda

10 comments:

  1. War is chaos and the US Navy practiced chaos on a daily basis!
    Tim

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  2. American soldiers sing this song, OODA, OODA....
    American battlefield all day long, OODA all day.
    Gwine to fight all day, specially fight at night,
    American soldiers sing this song,
    OODA always.
    Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

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  3. Initiative is ingrained in the American fighting man each and every day - after basic training. It's hard to account for it in planning.

    S2

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  4. "No plan survives first contact with the enemy." -- some Commie loser

    Brigadier Major Mike

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  5. unfortunately, as we were defeating them, they fatally slipped a shiv into the heart of our culture

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  6. Major Mike, twas not 'some commie loser' who said that, it was von Moltke. See
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_von_Moltke_the_Elder

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  7. My understading was otherwise. So I'll change it to "some Kraut loser". They haven't won a war since 1870.

    Brigadier Major Mike

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  8. Kinda like the French. The last war they won was their own revolution. But they were fighting other Frenchmen.
    Tim
    (Sorry King)

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  9. Ivan...IVAN!
    Would you get the door please!

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  10. To borrow from Gen. Belisarius: "Every battle plan gets effed up as soon as you contact the enemy; that's why they're called 'the enemy'."

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