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Article #1538Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
From: DeadMeat
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:11
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:11
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"Colin Campbell" <activated95b@earthlink.net (remove underscore)> wrote in message news:nkqgp0pcq32vfri0434kl9k1edpp1h6tsj@4ax.com... > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:17:10 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote: > > > >You may not think, from the exalted heights of your galactic certitude, that > >American military doctrine is not the use of overwhelming firepower, but in > >thinking that, you disagree with the American military commanders in Iraq, > >and with the planet at large. > > Oh yea. And you know what those commanders are thinking? > > Has it occurred to you that we are laughing at you? Has it occurred to you that your inability to express your ideas on the opposite side of the views is making quite a few people laugh at not only you but the Organization you claim to represent? I understand what Overwhelming Firepower is. That's where a bomb is dropped on a house housing your enemy. Or where you have the troops come in behind a couple or three M-1s that blow the 2nd floor, 3rd, 4th, and fifth window on the 2nd and third floor completely away. Hell, kid, it's done all the time and it saves lives on the US side. If you overkill it then it's still dead and you lost NO people in the first place. If you underkill it your ground troops are going to get some pretty nasty surprises. Overwhelming Firepower is used whenever possible.
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