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Monday, December 12, 2011

Back to Indochina

12.12.2011
 
But First Listen to Moshe Dayan
By John Stanton
Moshe Dayan
Lost: "having gone astray or missed the way; bewildered as to place, direction; not used to good purpose, as opportunities, time, or labor; wasted..." 

According to Fabius Maximus (FM), "The history of counter-insurgency [COIN] warfare is the repeated re-discovery and use of tactics that failed before." FM quotes from David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest to make his point.

"My favorite example: President Kennedy attended a demonstration exercise of the Green Berets. These multi-lingual PhDs swung through the trees to stage ambushes, ate snakes, and for the big finale one strapped a rocket to his back and flew through the air. Everyone was ecstatic except the French Ambassador: 'Interesting. We tried all this in Indochina, and still lost.'".... MORE

SourcePravda.ru

URL: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/12-12-2011/119926-indochina-0/

1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

lol. kung totoong gustong tirahin/sakupin ng kalbong agila ang indotsina, well said ang scenario na ito:

"What's next? The President of the United States speaks to the nation: "As Commander in Chief responsible for the defense of our great nation from enemies foreign and domestic, I have no greater responsibility than the protection of the people of the United States from dangers that threaten to destabilize our country and our way of life. Clearly the US Congress has become such a danger. It is unwilling to take up my programs for remedying the sickly state of our economy and infrastructure. It refuses to allocate the funding necessary for me to secure our interests in countries vital to our prosperity. It refuses to fully fund the men and women of our national security forces. Therefore, using the powers granted to me by the US Constitution as Commander and Chief, I suspend the operations and funding of the US Congress and nullify the terms of the current representatives and senators and all support staff. Our national security forces have place all members of the US Congress under house arrest and held incommunicado.""

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