[PsyOp]

Posted in honor of Ariel Sharon, Isreals own Patton.

[PsyOp]

The lions in their dens tremble on hearing his approach.

[Atlas Sneezed]

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[weikel]

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[Lazamataz]

Curiously, American equipment was extremely substandard in WWII, excepting the M1-Garand and the B-24 as well as a few fighter aircraft.

[nicollo]

You are a gem.

*bump* for the reading list.

[Reactionary]

Bump.

[TheLurkerX]

Sadly, Patton today would be considered a war criminal. So would Pershing. We have lost the ability to wage real war in the face of politics and political correctness. I believe we still have men capable of it, but they have been hobbled by world opinion.

[in the Arena]

On Defense:

Pacifists would do well to study the Siegfried and Maginot Lines, remembering that these defenses were forced; that Troy fell; that the walls of Hadrian succumbed; that the Great Wall of China was futile; and that, by the same token, the mighty seas which are alleged to defend us can also be circumvented by a resolute and ingenious opponent. In war, the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it. - General George S. Patton, Jr., War As I Knew It. 1947.

[Hugin]

Bump for later reading

[egarvue]

bump for me later - excellent compilation, PsyOp.

[Cold Heat]

Bumpity! Bump!

[The Great Satan]

PROFANITY

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight it's way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.

[PsyOp]

If anyone has a transcript of George C. Scotts opening speech from the movir "Patton", please send it to me or post it on this thread. Thanks.

PsyOp.

[FlyVet]

The two-bag system ("A" and "B") with which we began this war is utterly foolish, because by the time the "B" bags get up, many of their owners have become casualties. - General George S. Patton, Jr., War As I Knew It, 1947.

How utterly ironic, the USAF still refers to its mobility bags this way.

[PsyOp]

"The greatest battle implement ever devised." -- General George S. Patton, Jr.

The M-1 Garand.

[ProudEagle]

Pacifists would do well to study the Siegfried and Maginot Lines, remembering that these defenses were forced; that Troy fell; that the walls of Hadrian succumbed; that the Great Wall of China was futile; and that, by the same token, the mighty seas which are alleged to defend us can also be circumvented by a resolute and ingenious opponent. In war, the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it. - General George S. Patton, Jr., War As I Knew It. 1947.

Excellent post and read. And the above I truly wish our current CIC would adhere to.

[VaBthang4]

*Study Bump*

[SkyPilot]

Man--I like your stuff.

[Junior]

Any man who says he has battle fatigue is avoiding danger and forcing on those who have more hardihood than himself the obligation of meeting it. If soldiers would make fun of those who begin to show battle fatigue, they would prevent its spread, and also save the man who allows himself to malinger by this means from an afterlife of humiliation and regret. - General George S. Patton, Jr., War As I Knew It. 1947.

Considering battle fatigue, or shell shock, is an actual phenomenon that has deep physiological roots, Patton was speaking out of his ass on this one.

[knews_hound]

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