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To: wideawake
"Take a step back & try to figure out" that you don't know enough to HAVE an EDUCATED opinion on this subject.

it would be the same thing as me sitting here "running my mouth" about nuclear physics, if i knew NOTHING (and i do NOT know ANTHING about physics, nuclear or not!) about the subject.

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162 posted on 07/07/2008 7:54:08 PM PDT by stand watie (Resistance to TYRANTS is OBEDIENCE to God. T. Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie
"Take a step back & try to figure out" that you don't know enough to HAVE an EDUCATED opinion on this subject. it would be the same thing as me sitting here "running my mouth" about nuclear physics, if i knew NOTHING (and i do NOT know ANTHING about physics, nuclear or not!) about the subject.

A poor analogy. Nuclear physics is a highly specialized field with very few students.

Military strategy, operations and tactics is a much less rarefied discipline.

How many soldiers, active and veteran, are there in the world? How many nuclear physicists?

One gains knowledge of military science by either studying the battles of the past or by personally participating in battle in a command capacity.

I have done a good deal of the former and none of the latter.

Your statements on this forum show that you have done very little of the former and also none of the latter.

This is borne out by the lack of any insightful commentary on strategy or tactics by you on this thread - indeed, by your glaring inability to even distinguish the two.

Your crowing about credentials in lieu of actual substantial commentary inspires me to bring up the case of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest never claimed to have written military police manuals or even to have read or studied anything about warfare - but he is considered one of the greatest tactical innovators of his age.

By your standards, he would have absolutely no idea what he was talking about because he had none of the credentials you claim to have.

It is obvious from the commentary you have given on this thread that you know embarrassingly little about the actions and the military thinking of Forrest, Mosby, Lee, Hood and other great Confederate captains.

Your mention of Bankhead as a potential guerrilla leader was a painful reminder of your ignorance about this episode of our nation's history.

Not only was Bankhead one of the most eager and industrious Southern helpers in the Reconstruction with no personal inclination to carry on the fight, he was an artillerist - not a captain of infantry or cavalry - whose one attempt at a field command over anything other than emplaced batteries was an abject failure that got him disgraced.

The one thing I expect from a neo-Confederate is a basic knowledge of the Confederate armed services. You haven't even given us that.

164 posted on 07/08/2008 6:08:15 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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