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I had a professor for a military strategy class at Georgetown in 1980 who was a retired Army Colonel. Given that his views were somewhat to the right of that wussie, Ghenghis Khan, we affectionately called him “A-Bomb Atkinson.”
He did have a plan for the hostages in Iran. “You have the President announce to the world that the towel-headed camel jockeys had better release our hostages unharmed within 48 hours. If they don’t, you claim that they were all murdered, and you then attack Iran. Oh, and the first target for carpet-bombing by a wing of B-52s is the U.S. Embassy compound - you can’t say that they were all murdered and then have any show up alive later on.”
Now you know why he had that nickname.
I’m betting that old Col. Atkinson is a happy dude, wherever he may be right now (alas, he died in 1999).
Curtis Lemay Air Force
Chesty Puller Marine Corps
William Halsey Navy
George S. Patton Army