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To: Taxman; Sarcasm Factory
You are most welcome.

To put a fine point on this topic, let's follow Gen MacArthur in WWII, specifically Operation Cartwheel. Mac always, ALWAYS, fought to win. But in these plans circa March 1943, he delayed the capture of the Japanese base at Rabaul until 1944 because...

My strategic conception for the Pacific Theater, which I outlined after the Papuan Campaign and have since consistently advocated, contemplates massive strokes against only main strategic objectives, utilizing surprise and air-ground striking power supported and assisted by the fleet. This is the very opposite of what is termed "island hopping" which is the gradual pushing back of the enemy by direct frontal pressure with the consequent heavy casualties which will certainly be involved. Key points must of course be taken but a wise choice of such will obviate the need for storming the mass of islands now in enemy possession. "Island hopping" with extravagant losses and slow progress...is not my idea of how to end the war as soon and as cheaply as possible. New conditions require for solution and new weapons require for maximum application new and imaginative methods. Wars are never won in the past.

The concealed carry gains at the state level have been achieved via massive strokes against only main strategic objectives, utilizing surprise and air-ground striking power supported and assisted by the fleet. Yes...NJ and other states lacking a state constitutional guarantee to KABA are suffering. But their liberation via a SCOTUS case with this current group of justices is, IMHO, akin to a direct assault on Rabaul in 1943.

55 posted on 02/27/2019 2:47:27 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2))
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To: DoodleBob

Discretion is, of course, the better part of valor.

The sadness is that somehow, someway, the swamp co-opted Chief Justice Roberts, and he, being a good politician, once bought, stays bought. Damn shame, that!

Best to wait this one out until the court is reconstituted in the image of the Founders!


56 posted on 02/27/2019 3:50:11 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: DoodleBob
To put a fine point on this topic, let's follow Gen MacArthur in WWII, specifically Operation Cartwheel. Mac always, ALWAYS, fought to win. But in these plans circa March 1943, he delayed the capture of the Japanese base at Rabaul until 1944 because...

***My strategic conception for the Pacific Theater, which I outlined after the Papuan Campaign and have since consistently advocated, contemplates massive strokes against only main strategic objectives, utilizing surprise and air-ground striking power supported and assisted by the fleet. This is the very opposite of what is termed "island hopping" which is the gradual pushing back of the enemy by direct frontal pressure with the consequent heavy casualties which will certainly be involved. Key points must of course be taken but a wise choice of such will obviate the need for storming the mass of islands now in enemy possession. "Island hopping" with extravagant losses and slow progress...is not my idea of how to end the war as soon and as cheaply as possible. New conditions require for solution and new weapons require for maximum application new and imaginative methods. Wars are never won in the past.***

The concealed carry gains at the state level have been achieved via massive strokes against only main strategic objectives, utilizing surprise and air-ground striking power supported and assisted by the fleet. Yes...NJ and other states lacking a state constitutional guarantee to KABA are suffering. But their liberation via a SCOTUS case with this current group of justices is, IMHO, akin to a direct assault on Rabaul in 1943.

Interesting that both Patton and Mac shared such common viewpoints on conserving resources by awaiting and encircling enemy strongpoints, cutting them off from receiving further supplies until they're no longer strong. And that too is something we're not-yet- doing.

Another detail or two to add into your analysis: the current admin assistant to NRA sellout Executive Vice President and Quisling-in-chief Wayne LaPierre is a former senior staffer of the NJ Rifle & Pistol Clubs, who hopes to ride LaPierre the Poodle's coattails so that he too can loot the membership for some 5 million worth of salary, benefits, and P.R. firm kickbacks per year [if not out right payoffs from the opposition] as the next NRA Idi Amin.

It would also be nice to see Judge Thomas Michael Hardiman replace Ruth Bader-Meinhoff on the Supremes before the NJ, or any other important piece of 2nd Amendment legislation is reviewed there. I am not holding my breath waiting for that to happen, nor for him to be President Trump's next choice. But we can hope.

Of course, when Patton's Third Army DID encounter a German town or village that was a strongpoint and had to be taken due to road or rail bridges or junctions or other considerations, they had a few novel methods of doing business, including the opening of new doors to avoid existing ones that might be booby-trapped or covered by fire from inside. The use of direct fire from 155mm self-propelled artillery at one and two city block ranges at Aachen comes to mind.

76 posted on 03/02/2019 10:49:35 AM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, then eat you.)
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