[ejonesie22]

Actually I have studied both Sun Tzu and Carl Von Clausewitz among many others in my time, but my research thesis was on the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan. His work on the use of naval power on a global setting is still guiding naval thought today.

I also performed detailed research on the evolution of strategic bombing and its transition into a peace keeping stance in the cold war and participated in studies of global terrorism and the development of strategies concerning same.

Now do you have some stats for me or are you going to keep running with that “I am right and you are wrong because I say so” Paulbot meme...

[Hemingway's Ghost]

That's wonderful. Join the club.

And I'm not even saying you're "wrong" . . . just that your "data" is anecdotal at best. And talk about a micro-sample! Fact is, I'm perplexed that someone with your august educational background threw anecdotal evidence out there as "proof" of anything in the first place. Surely you know better than that, yes?

[jd777]

next on your reading list : “WAR IS A RACKET” by Major General Smedley Butler USMC