Didn’t have to go too far into the thread to hear the simple truth. The “winning hearts and minds” nonsense nearly lost us the second stage of the Iraq war. War is to be despised and hated, it is horrible, it is hell. You put your soldiers on the battlefield and crush the enemy, you kill them and destroy them and any possibility for them to make war in the near future. You give them war till they hate war and have lost all taste for it.
It would seem, in the here and now, a few media lies are worth 50k troops to an enemy; that is if your leaders are ignorant enough to try to fight a PC war and let the media and our enemies (often one and the same) dictate the parameters of war.
(chuckle) That's what I was going to post, until I closed the wrong window.
And the 'Winning Their Hearts and Minds' junk cost us BIG in Vietnam.