[Yasotay]

I remember Murray as one of my visiting professors at West Point (he's an airpower type of guy....). It is a good book .... and as they say in the book, much of what happened in the western desert remains classified, but I should would like to hear/read what really happened out there ... lots of rumors. I still like "Thunder Run" the best.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Scales was an SF officer before getting his star, so I suppose he provides some offset to Murray (whom I don't know). I spent some years under his command. He was (and is) a good man. He got picked up out of the National Guard as an O6 when it started dawning on various people (Schoomaker was one) that one of the group commanders was significantly smarter than the others.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[expat_panama]

Thanks mucho for the heads up on Murray.  It's very interesting to know of his 'air power' inclination because there was a passing comment that they made that really stood out to me like a brass band.   They said that in the tactical command center for picking targets for air attacks they had-- along with the usual bunch of tacticians and other specialists for accessing risks versus gain per target--  a bunch of lawyers so they could also assess expert legal advice as to say, what the tort liability would be for annihilating this guy as opposed to exploding that guy.

Times have really changed I guess....