“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
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Is it any wonder that Trump has said over and over that if we have to go to war we will NOT be telling the enemy every plan and everything we intend to do?
As far as striking fast, i love the Patton quote, “I’d rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan three weeks from now.” This was one of the major differences of styles between Patton and Montgomery. Patton moved fast and struck like a thunderbolt. Montgomery built up his forces over time to an overwhelming force before he moved. And then he always moved cautiously...too cautiously. it is hy Rommel , after his defeat at El Alamein, managed to withdraw in an orderly fashion and very rapidly until he succeeded in saving his troops from capture. Montgomery was afraid of Rommel, always fearing a trap and Rommel knew his enemy and profited by it.
Have had a copy of Sun Tzu for many many years.
Thanks for your post. Enjoyed it.
I would hope Trump does NOT become a rear echelon butthole and allows good generals and commanders to execute plans designed and devised to obliterate the enemy and not make friends with the adversaries.