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Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine

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From: Colin Campbell
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:14
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:37:09 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote:

>remove underwear stood in a field of horny clues, smeared himself with clue
>musk, sang the clue summoning song, did the clue mating dance, and wrote:
>
>> 
>> If you do not know what attrition warfare is - just say so.
>> 
>
>It's what the Viet Cong did to us in Viet Nam, and it's what the Iraqi
>insurgents are doing to us in Iraq.

Look - you have already convinced me that you do not know what
attrition warfare is.  Why do you persist in demonstrating your
ignorance to people who have had formal training?

BTW, if you think the enemy is using attrition warfare on us - a ~0.5%
casualty rate is evidence that they are _not_ attriting us.




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in hiding until all the shooting stopped. Well,
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Subject: Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
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