Posted on 09/01/2003 10:19:52 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:07:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
War has a way of turning the tangential and the ill-regarded into the vital and successful. Submarines, aircraft, tanks — all endured decades of derision and dismissal before proving their worth.
The reason they were able to prove their worth is that, when the moment came, serious military thinkers had already created effective "concepts of operation" and great leaders knew how to adapt concepts to situations.
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