Friday, June 01, 2007

Ralph Peters is Spot-On

and the implications have nothing to do with a Große Koalition clusterfuck a la AA.
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6 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Officers poisoned by too much time on civilian campuses behave like professors, defending the fanciful theories in their dissertations to the last Infantryman. (They unanimously insist that religion isn't a major factor in the Middle East, since Harvard taught them that faith is irrelevant.)

Ouchhh! If officers in the US Army think like card-carrying Pepe Planeteers, we're fokked, indeed.

6/01/2007 4:34 PM
Mr roT said...

Right. And if Pepe Planeteer Numéro Un were in the Oval Office instead of Dumbya??? What then?

6/01/2007 4:58 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

You mean McCain?

6/01/2007 5:24 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

"But they ultimately proved more adaptable than we've been: We restrict ourselves to supposedly humane theories of counterinsurgency warfare that have failed us for 60 years; our enemies simply do whatever works"
And do you think McCain is a purveyor of these "humane theories"?? [the answer is Hell No]

6/01/2007 5:27 PM
Tecumseh said...

The advent of military aircraft changed warfare, expanding the battlefield into a third dimension while dramatically deepening the area that could be attacked. Air power alone was rarely decisive (despite the claims of its advocates), but control of the skies became vital. What's the postmodern equivalent of air power, the new revolutionary development?

I say, let's stay with air power, boys. OK, OK, call me fuddy duddy. But I still think Captain Kong is the answer.

6/01/2007 6:06 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

It may prove impossible to win by today's rules. We, too, need a new warfare paradigm. The bad news is that there isn't any sign of one.

Exactly. And since you can't win, it is time to quit sacrificing human capital and treasure.

6/02/2007 9:24 AM

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