Fascists never change.
Posted on 11/13/2017 4:03:09 AM PST by servo1969
I was a kid when the "godless" generation began hijacking American public education. They had hoped for a revolution of sex, drugs and rock and roll, but when it failed to materialize in any meaningful, violent manner, they went into politics and education.
How, on earth, could conservatives not realize what was happening? How could we not see where it was going? Were we simply too busy?
Later, post 18
Bump for later.
The impetus was there, but what radicalized youth, and brought many conservatives to a similar conclusion, was the the Vietnam war was being waged ineffectively; government became being seen as an enemy. By the time that burned away, leftism had academe locked up.
The be fair, most of the bombs dropped by high altitude bombers against pinpoint targets missed. To hit a small fixed target like a bridge took something like a thousand bombs to land one. High altitude bombing against an actively evading target was really a long shot.
One aspect of modern warfare that is under-appreciated by civilians is how precision guided weapons have revolutionized combat. Ships and planes used to bristle with guns and bombs. That was necessary because most of what you shot or dropped was going to miss. Today a single B-2 can accomplish what in WWII would have required hundreds of planes.
In a full blown shooting civil war I would much rather have the SJWs actively working with the other side. Their skewed view of reality makes them a perfect unwitting fifth column.
And Torpedo 8 scored no hits either and lost every plane...but they brought Japanese air cover down to the deck which let the dive bombers do their work.
That’s another aspect of American battlefield victories in WWII that is not well understood by the average person - battlefield artillery fire direction control.
The red legs at Fort Sill had developed a system where by it was easily possible for a single forward controller to fire all the division’s artillery on a single target, and even bring in fire from the artillery of adjacent divisions. Since an infantry division had 36 x 105mm howitzers and 12 x 155mm howitzers, this could be devastating.
They had also developed TOT, Time On Target, techniques, so a planned barrage could arrive literally at the same moment from all locations. This required calculating time in flight for the shells from each gun. This made initial barrages more effective since enemy troops didn’t have time to take cover, knowing something was starting because of the impact of shells a few hundred yards away. Everything got plastered at once.
Add these capabilities to the huge mobility advantage of being completely motorized, when much German artillery was still horse drawn, and you had a really significant battlefield advantage for the U.S., one that is largely unknown to most folks.
Yes, the SBDs were virtually unimpeded in their attacks. I think they started at 10:08 AM and it was over at 10:22 with three Jap carriers in flames.
It stayed that way until the laser-guided bombs of the Viet Nam war. The first pilot to ever use one was astonished as his bomb hit the ‘painted’ target dead center, taking out a sand-bag surrounded AA gun position in one take from a safe altitude.
Time On Target, techniques, so a planned barrage could arrive literally at the same moment from all locations.
And the GOPe is wasting the opportunity Trump is giving us. The Republican Party needs reform or replacement.
A few of my high school friends pulled me aside to ask about my father's interests.
When I taught my 8th graders about the Battle of Midway, it would take me pretty much the whole hour. So complex, so many moving parts. The history book devoted two sentences to it. It is why so much is being forgotten or never learned. The thirty women who died ferrying planes get more space, pictures, etc. The Japanese in the internment camps do as well.
I remember grade school in the late forties and having to learn the names of the Japanese carriers. It was still fresh on everyone’s mind, I imagine.
Of course, everyone older than me had lived through it. But as time passes the unforgettable becomes forgotten. Geez I feel old.
The mere fact of being ‘God fearing’ is no defense against lunatic societal belief...I know plenty of lefty secondary teachers (almost all of them female) who go to church and pray fervently, then just as fervently pull the lever for the most radical socialist available...
We’re going to be needing an alternative party. The very name “Republican” is giving us a collective sour stomach.
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