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The war you can't ignore
Townhall.com ^ | February 10, 2006 | W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

Posted on 02/10/2006 5:40:33 AM PST by SuzyQ2

“If we [every man and woman living in America today] don’t understand the enemy we are fighting and the actual nature of this conflict, we have little likelihood of surviving this war, let alone prevailing in it,” he writes. But Gaffney and his contributors don’t just make sweeping if-then statements. They boil down the complexities of our enemy in a fashion that can be quickly and easily digested by all of us who need to know.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: army; clausewitz; emp; gaffney; jomini; marine; marines; napoleon; security; soldier; terror; war

1 posted on 02/10/2006 5:40:35 AM PST by SuzyQ2
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To: SuzyQ2

EMP is a lot worse than PMS.


2 posted on 02/10/2006 5:45:37 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: SuzyQ2

ping


3 posted on 02/10/2006 6:59:25 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: SuzyQ2

Unfortunately, Islam is only the first wave of the war that is coming.


4 posted on 02/10/2006 7:50:02 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ( You'll love Laffey! http://www.electlaffey.com Chafeehas2go)
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...Gaffney concludes that America is not simply fighting a global war on terror. “To be sure, it is a global war,” he says. “But what we have established is that, given its complexities and stakes, this conflict should be called what it plainly is – the War for the Free World.”...

Marxists from Latin america, Islamists from around the globe, China and it's Asian allies, and from the looks of things, Russia.

Let's not forget the legions of enemies within.


5 posted on 02/10/2006 8:00:22 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com ( You'll love Laffey! http://www.electlaffey.com Chafeehas2go)
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To: SuzyQ2

"EMP,could effectively knock out anything electronic in the blast's line of sight."Anyone know more about emp than i do?I read some time ago that one nuke detonated at altitude(?)could take out the entire NE USA.


6 posted on 02/10/2006 8:36:16 AM PST by Thombo2
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