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“You gotta challenge all assumptions. If you don’t, what is doctrine on day one becomes dogma forever after.” Colonel John Boyd, USAF Cough https://en.wikipedi
by rurounijones 9y ago
“You gotta challenge all assumptions. If you don’t, what is doctrine on day one becomes dogma forever after.” Colonel John Boyd, USAF
Cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002 Cough
- dmoy 9y agoWell now I know where Walter Jon Williams got his ideas about dumb rigid military doctrine in Dread Empire's Fall. I thought that sort of stupid was fiction, wow.
- jessaustin 9y ago...and we wonder why we haven't won a war, or even honorably withdrawn from one, since WWII. (Wars in the Caribbean don't count. Talking about Grenada would sort of prove my point...)
- nl 9y agoGulf War 1 was pretty successful.
- jessaustin 9y agoIt wasn't a win for the same reason Korea wasn't. The troops still haven't come home, because if they did everything they "accomplished" would collapse immediately.
- nl 9y agoGulf War 1 (1991) involved removing Iraq from Kuwait. It was entirely successful, and the troops withdrew. It involved leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq until the entirely different and disastrous Gulf War 2.
- jessaustin 9y agoUSA soldiers have continuously occupied Kuwait, Saudi, and Iraq since that time. Famously, their ongoing presence in Saudi was cited as a "justification" for 9/11, a decade later. Good job guys!