[Dundee]

And in warfare, a smart general always secures home plate before venturing out to left field.

An even smarter general (or president) goes to where the enemy lives and knocks them out BEFORE they even turn up at the ball park.

Never let the enemy dictate the battle.

[fporretto]

Generally I respect Col. Hackworth's opinions, but I think he's being a bit myopic here. Napoleon was once shown a proposed defensive deployment of the French Army that spread the soldiers uniformly along the nation's border. His comment was: "It's very interesting. What are you guarding against? Smugglers?"

This is a battle in which the enemy must be rooted out and destroyed, not permitted to strike further. We must go to where he shelters, to his logistical base, and eliminate it and as many of his soldiers and supporters as possible. That's the Middle East: principally, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. If we refuse to take the war to the enemy and destroy his ability to keep his forces in the field, he will continue his "asymmetric war" against us until, out of sheer terror, we have produced the sort of totalitarian society here that he wants for us.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[300winmag]

From the looks of George W. Bush's recent $355 billion record-breaking defense budget, nothing's been learned from either those bloody years in Vietnam or our Special Operations victory that defanged the Taliban in Afghanistan in the blink of a bomb. The biggest annual defense budget in our history – 70 percent of the cost for World War II –

Right there, Hack has shown that this article is being dishonest, and the tiny pony somewhere in the article is buried among the horseshit.

As a percentage of GNP, Bush's "record-breaking" budget is on a par with the starvation years of the Great Depression. And a WW2 dollar was worth ten times what our present one is. In today's dollar amounts, we were spending trillions a year, and most of the economy geared to supporting the war effort, during World War 2.

Hackworth is writing way over his pay grade, and should limit himself to comments at the company level and below, where he still has some idea of what he's talking about.

[Squantos]

What would Sun Tsu consider in this situation ?I have always enjoyed reading this book......... it applies to a lot in life IMO.


http://www.creativeresistance.ca/toolkit/sun-tzu-strategic-vision.htm


Stay Safe SLB !

[ASA Vet]

nuclear-tipped missiles to destroy planet Earth 10 times over.

If such a stupid statement appears this early in an article,
is the rest worth reading?