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Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine

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From: DeadMeat
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:41
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"Colin Campbell" <activated95b@earthlink.net (remove underscore)> wrote in
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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.

LOL, it's you that doesn't understand.  Attriton works both ways.  It's up
to us to hunt them down and kill them. It's up to them to project enough
negative vibes to remove the will of the American People to continue to wage
war.

The Oldest Directive of War (and it still is today) is:  War is not to kill
all your enemy but to remove the resolve to continue.
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Subject: Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
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