“...Waht Did Patton say about Fortified Defenses?” [beancounter13, post 41]
Patton - on presumes you mean George Smith Patton Jr, USMA 1908 - was wrong.
And he didn’t say “fortified defenses;” George C Scott said “fixed defenses” in the 1970 film directed by Franklin J Schaffner & written by Francis Ford Coppola. Adapted from the book _Patton: Ordeal & Triumph_ by Ladislas Farago (Ivan Oblensky, 1963). Some doubt exists about the provenance of the quote anyway. Common occurrence.
Fortifications - armored/engineered fixed defenses - are no good in isolation but can be vital components in over all resistance to invasion. None are completely bulletproof but they can cause major delays to an advancing enemy.
They figured prominently in both World Wars. For starters, read Sir John Keegan’s one-volume history of World War One.
Yes, well, I was referring to individual people stockpiling ammo for the theoretical collapse. Such an individual, even with a large family and a large stockpile, would eventually be overrun.
Guns, ammo, and cast iron are good to the extent they help acquire food for survival, but planning for major defense is not a good idea. A better idea is to acquire and use your enemy’s weapons: that way, you can always acquire more ammo by attacking the enemy.
“Forts win wars!” - SpongeBob