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Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine

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From: Colin Campbell
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:21
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 04:38:51 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote:


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>Look, these guys are highly trained war machines.  Ask them.  They'll tell
>you.  They're not supposed to have opinions like civilians like me. 
>They're supposed to have a set of instant, and often lethal, reactions,
>hard-wired into the cortex of their brains, according to a set of
>perceptual grids called Doctrine.

I take it you know nothing about the people who wear the uniform.

BTW, looks like you do not know what 'Doctrine' is either.



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Subject: Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
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