The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
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All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
Or as CSA Gen. NB Forrest put it: “Get there fustus with the mostest!”
The Civil War was an horrific but powerful laboratory for modern warfare. Grant and Lee and some of the others learned how to fight against modern armies. But the basics still hold. Whoever gets in the first good punch has an advantage.
Too bad the US seems to have unlearned this lesson what with “Limited engagement” and “appropriate use of force” BS.
Imagine how many lives could have been saved if the US had entered the Vietnam conflict with the same tactics they used against Germany and Japan?
People seem to think that limited warfare is more humane. I disagree. It just makes the misery and horror last longer.
I agree Chemist. If we are going to fight a war we should know what a victory looks like and we must know how we end the thing.