My Review of Freeper Larry Schweikart's latest best selling book, "America's Victories"

Freeper Larry Schweikart captures the essence of the unparalleled military success of the US Military with this book. Have their been mistakes? Yes. Have there been defeats? Yes. But the over-riding history of the US military is that of the most tremendous success, coupled with the most compassionate treatment of its enemies, and loyalty to its own, of any military force on earth.

In America's Victories, Schweikart uses seven points to punctuate a great deal of the reason why the us miltary has enjoyed such success. Those points are:

As a published author myself ("The Dragon's Fury Series", and "The Stand at Klamath Falls"), my hat is off to Mr. Schweikart and his clear grasp of American history and his ability to render in into the written word how that history has translated into a military force that has done more to secure freedom, and extend it, than any other military force in history.

But you know what is interesting? Victor Davis Hanson, as I mention in the book, in 1999 wondered in his book "Soul of Battle" if ever again a democracy would have the will to fight a "war of liberation." Well, we've already done it twice since then, and I think more are to come.

Probably the weakness of democracies such as ours is that we do NOT exert one long, uninterrupted, constant attack on the enemy, but tend to strike hard, pull back a little and allow the civilians to have a "normal" life for a time, then go again. That's why I DON'T think the public is at all prepped for a war with Iran, which is likely on the horizon. And, yes, it may take something of a disaster to get them prepped.

However, isn't that a strength? Isn't that better than a centralized, totalitarian state that NEEDS constant warfare to stay in power? For all the losses, Pearl Harbors and 9/11s are the price we pay for our view that peace should be the NORM, not the exception.

And, yes, it may take something of a disaster to get them prepped. However, isn't that a strength? Isn't that better than a centralized, totalitarian state that NEEDS constant warfare to stay in power?

Certainly, but we don't have to be on a perpetual war footing to send a message to any potential antagonists that crossing us might be their last act of defiance. That ultimately, the American people will get behind any effort to defeat those that would be our conquerors. So no, I don't believe we have to be constantly fighting to show others, given enough provocation, we will.

There may come a day when the American people will roll over, and maybe the leaders of radical Islam thought that day had come. I submit they may have only been a few years early with their estimate. In another ten, maybe twenty years, who knows.

I suppose one can't fault bin Laden et al for thinking we were ripe for the picking. Just look around for the signs of weakness that are too numerous to list. Bailing from Somalia(thank you Bent Willie) being one of the most glaring IMHO. Fact of the matter is, this one ain't over yet.

For all the losses, Pearl Harbors and 9/11s are the price we pay for our view that peace should be the NORM, not the exception.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, general Yamamoto's now prophetic comments should be food for thought for radical Islam or anybody else with designs on America but, I daresay, America will be tested again and again, the "sleeping giant" label notwithstanding. Is it because we project weakness instead of strength?

FGS

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