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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
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media propaganda
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War is chaos and the US Navy practiced chaos on a daily basis!
ReplyDeleteTim
American soldiers sing this song, OODA, OODA....
ReplyDeleteAmerican 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
Initiative is ingrained in the American fighting man each and every day - after basic training. It's hard to account for it in planning.
ReplyDeleteS2
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy." -- some Commie loser
ReplyDeleteBrigadier Major Mike
unfortunately, as we were defeating them, they fatally slipped a shiv into the heart of our culture
ReplyDeleteMajor Mike, twas not 'some commie loser' who said that, it was von Moltke. See
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My understading was otherwise. So I'll change it to "some Kraut loser". They haven't won a war since 1870.
ReplyDeleteBrigadier Major Mike
Kinda like the French. The last war they won was their own revolution. But they were fighting other Frenchmen.
ReplyDeleteTim
(Sorry King)
Ivan...IVAN!
ReplyDeleteWould you get the door please!
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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