“I love the smell of napalm in the morning, it smells like victory.” As do atomic artillery.
Oddly our great nation post WWII has fought with one hand behind its back due to political correctness starting with Korea. We were pushed back into the Pusan and in all probability of defeat. Due to heroic effort of our troops with great sacrifice of life this did not happen. Many dead American soldiers lay dead and frozen in the cold.
This insane political ideology continued to the Vietnam War.
We were supreme on the field of battle. We lost the political battle.
What an insane war that was. Our guys kicked their ass on the ground, in the air but not in the media war. The bad guys won.
Charles McMahan was my friend. He got drafted and died, oddly at the close of the war. He left behind a young lady and child. That death would have been honorable if we concluded that war to an honorable war of freedom.
His death was a waste of a good man.
Anytime one chooses to engage in a limited war with rules you have already lost. Your enemy has thus defined the rules of engagement and you will lose.
War is not pleasant. It should be avoided if at all possible. If one goes to war it should be prosecuted with extreme violence and death. Thus those oppose you fear you.
It works for the good guys and the bad guys also. That is just the way it is today and thousands of years past.
We won in WW2 because we were fighting on the same side as the USSR, and thus did not have our Communists at home sabotaging our efforts.