[JudgeAmint]

[Milwaukee_Guy]

Blitzkrieg was all about the ability of tanks, infantry, artillery and air power to communicate and move together as a team in real time.

A Main Battle Tank = Exploitation.

We are seeing it played out again in it's most formidable permutation yet. Truly awesome to watch.

BTW - Why are we and the Brit's still bothering with towed artillery? It only slows down the advance and is vulnerable to retaliation. Good thing the Iraqi's have no concept of counter battery fire.

[EvilOverlord]

Regarding the need for small countries to develop NBC weapons and the need for the US to develop defenses.

In my opinion, the tendency for the small countries to develop WMD calls for a policy of preemption, rather than simply defense. The US must change the rules of the game such that nuclear weapons become not a guarantee against attack, but rather a guarantee that the regime will be attacked.

The nuclear club must be closed to new membership, and this must be enforced by the US military. There's no other way. It's simply too dangerous for us to not hold this policy. North Korea is a perfect example of what happens if we are negligent in stopping proliferation.

Unfortunately, the world is a harsh place, and harsh measures may need to be taken to ensure our security.

And the answer to the question of who are we to decide who gets nuclear weapons is that we are the strongest, wealthiest, and freest country in the world. We are also the most likely target of these weapons and we are the ones who inevitably go in to clean up the messes caused by these little Hitlers. I prefer to do the cleanup when the job is small, rather than waiting for disasterous consequences.

[Maedhros]

self bump

[paul51]

Since this is a potentially effective strategy, the United States must solidify its defenses against such weapons

Or deal with them preemptively

[gcruse]

Two days ago, the war was lost. Now we're declaring victory before we've even entered Baghdad. What a bunch of manic-depressives.

[Just another Joe]

Anything short of this merely invites destruction in turn.

Anything LONG of that GUARANTEES destruction post haste.

[VOA]

Heck even ABC newslady Joan London (sp?) (fomerly of "Good Morning America")
thinks the Abrams is cool.

She had about a 15-minute segment on ABC a couple of years ago where she got to drive
(and shoot, IIRC) in the Abrams...she sounded like a teenager who'd just been
given a Corvette Sting-ray to drive around!

[WaterDragon]

"Dictatorships suffer from intrinsic weaknesses. They are economically brittle, technologically backward and administratively challenged."

This sounds a lot like France and Germany, as well.

"What the United States must do now, in the wake of its victory in Iraq, is anticipate the anti-American coalition’s intensification of WMD proliferation. This will be their response to America’s victory. Since this is a potentially effective strategy, the United States must solidify its defenses against such weapons."

France should not be allowed to keep nuclear weapons. They are too unreliable and immoral.

[Gamecock]

Through all of this, America’s real enemies have learned an important lesson: namely, that U.S. military power can only be effectively opposed by employing mass destruction weapons at the outset of a conflict. If U.S. power is to be overthrown in the world, that overthrow must rely upon nuclear, biological and chemical munitions.

And have them used right back at you, 100 times over, accomplishing what?

[biblewonk]

M1's rock bump.

[Liberal Classic]

Considering the effectiveness of Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht combined arms operations over Poland and France, this is high praise. There's no shame in making this comparison, though I am sure the lefties will cry "nazi." Blitzkrieg indeed.