Or . . .
Posted on 04/14/2018 9:05:11 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
Edited on 04/14/2018 9:23:57 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
How about Trump asks for contributions to build the wall? We appoint an accounting firm to handle all funds as opposed to the Gov. and the AFGE.
You never put your defenses right on the border. You should place them strategically.
That’s why the Maginot and Siegfried lines worked at the beginning of World War II. At places the Siegfried was 5 or 10 miles back from the French border. The French invasion of Germany in 1939 quickly gained the territory in the border area to a depth of several miles, but stalled out when they got to the Siegfried despite an overwhelmingly superior force. The campaign devolved into a back and forth in the area in front of the Siegfried over the next month or so, but with no real threat to the area defended by the Siegfried.
Towers, strategically placed, manned with smart technologically implemented .50 caliber fully auto machine guns.
On detection, first fires non lethal warning spray of copper jacketed lead projectiles. If ignored, instantaneously switches to lethal mode.
A few incidences may result in lower attempts of illegal border crossings.
I’ve got to admit, that’s about
the stupidest statement, besides
islands tipping over, that I’ve
ever heard. Mexicans in the
long grass. Safaris and trophy
hunting. Instead of bwana it
would be em heffe.
EL heffe...
“Fixed fortifications are a monument to man’s stupidity’’. - General George Patton.
I was contracted to do some generator fuel systems upgrades on all the Verizon switchgears from Brownsville to Laredo in ‘14. Wide open. Our side of the border was not much different from Mexico. Made me sick.
ROMA, Texas (AP) — Stymied by Congress and the courts, President Donald Trump has struggled to make good on his signature campaign promises to build a wall and stop migrants.
...
It’s to stop illegal activity, not migrants. The AP is evil for saying otherwise.
Mmmmm, OK?
Of course, he had a terrible reputation when it came to him going up against fixed fortifications. (Metz (tactical victory, strategic defeat) Nancy (Tactical victory, Germans escaped largely intact))
Wide open.
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The South isn’t much different than the North, East, or West
coast borders. We pretty much don’t have a secure border.
Call it a "Land mine sequestration zone". :-)
Or . . .
Patton had a great record killing Krauts, that’s undeniable.
He was the exact inverse of Monty. Patton was the master of dynamic warfare, but had a really poor record on set piece battles.
Montgomery was really good on set piece battles, but couldn’t manage a dynamic situation.
It would have been interesting, for example, to see what Patton could have done with Market Garden when the intelligence proved faulty.
Market Garden was a disaster. Allied intelligence knew there were two Waffen SS panzer divisions in the area, members of the Dutch underground had been risking their lives to pass that info along to them. In the end it was the Dutch people who paid the price for Montys hubris. Hundreds of Dutch civilians were hauled off to concentration camps and the Germans blockaded Holland and thousands more Dutch civilians died in what they called “The Starvation Winter’’. I knew American veterans of the ETO who hated Montgomery. One vet once told me “I’d have shot that Limey son of a b!tch quicker then I’d have shot Hitler’’.
He was in the business of killin' Nat-zis....and cousin', business was a-boomin'.
Patton just wanted to get to Berlin ASAP, and shoot that paper-hanging son of a bitch, himself.
He would have done it, if they’d let him. But that piece of real estate was reserved for the Russians.
“No dumb so of a bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won wars by making the other dumb son of a bitch die for his!’’.- General George Patton.
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