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To: Sherman Logan
Patton would never have been able to handle the counter-insurgency

My friend, if Patton had been the general in charge of the war in Iraq, there would have been NO insurgency in any form.

222 posted on 12/22/2008 10:07:54 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go?)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
My friend, if Patton had been the general in charge of the war in Iraq, there would have been NO insurgency in any form.

Nonsense. Patton specialized in massive tank assaults and sweeping flank movements. Please explain how these tactics are useful in counter-insurgency.

Patton no doubt could have squashed the insurgency using Roman/Mongol methods, but that doesn't require a general of genius. Just a butcher.

224 posted on 12/22/2008 10:17:43 AM PST by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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