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Article #1480Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
From: RTO Trainer
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:22
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:22
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Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote in message news:<1226689.1DYTBNVvNn@news.verizon.net>... > RTO Trainer wrote: > > >> > Perhaps the problem here is that you and I have different conceptions > >> > of the term "doctrine." > >> > >> We probably do.��And�you're�in�the�signal�corps,�no?��I�think�that's > >> quite honorable, but it doesn't necessarily make you an expert on > >> doctrine. Since you referenced that blog, I thought it was probably a > >> refernce about doctrine.��I�thought�wrong. > >> > > > > My Signal Corps experience does not make me a expert on doctrine. > > Being a more than averagely curiousl and studious soldier, though > > makes ne better informed than most in the same position though.��I've > > read FM 3-0 which defines and describes current doctrine. > > > > OK, then, it is clear to me that if current doctrine is what led to the > wholesale slaughter and destruction in Fallujah, then current doctrine is > bad doctrine. > > I think there's a limit to the quibbling about words that you can do over > 100 body bags, this month alone. You are making a lot of assumptions without evidence.
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