Posted on 01/11/2007 12:00:40 AM PST by jmc1969
Sometimes not necessarily in that order.
God Bless your son (and all our troops)!
Unfortunately, we are.
Thanks tgsl!! Thanks so much!!
Actually, a large minority of Americans are the biggest obstacle to proceeding with and winning this war. They bathe in ignorance and thus accept and support insane arguments against this global war, and they vote. Puppets who vote. Liberalism is what will lose this war, and winning hearts and minds overseas is peripheral to and made much more difficult by it.
The more dead Islamofascists, the more at least Americans may finally see that this is a war which is serious and deadly for their interests. I hope for B-52's bombing Anbar province to support our new 4000 troops disbursed their by the Prez.
The Brittish in Malaya is a common used example of succesful HAM COIN policy.
In other words, succesful HAM resulted in the Brittish being forced to withdraw from one of their imperial holdings. Even when succesful, HAM doesn't work.
This idea that an insurgency is at a basic level different from a conventional war is ridiculous. Caesar put down the insurgency in Gaul the same way we defeated the Nazis and the Japanese - through destruction of their military capabilities and wholesale slaughter of their civilian population.
Forced to withdraw? By who? By the time Templer left in 1954 the insurgency was broken. The elections in 1957 happened because the British were successful, not in spite of it.
This idea that an insurgency is at a basic level different from a conventional war is ridiculous. Caesar put down the insurgency in Gaul the same way we defeated the Nazis and the Japanese - through destruction of their military capabilities and wholesale slaughter of their civilian population.
That depends if you read Jomini or Clausewitz. Napoleon, and especially Mao, made Jomini irrelevant.
i wouldnt mind seeing some pics of all these dead talibanies
Look at the silver lining. The Taliban fighters obviously watch and believe the reports they see on CNN. As long as they keep lining up to get into Afghanistan, our troops can continue to oblige them with an industrial strength ass whoopin' everytime. I say let's keep it up.
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