ThePythonicCow
7th September 2013, 07:27
Thanks to Joseph P. Farrell (http://gizadeathstar.com/2013/09/tidbit-a-thought-provoking-rant-on-the-american-military/) for the link, here's a delightful rant on the problems with the US Military: Disordered Ramblings on Martial Prowess. (Fred Reed) (http://www.fredoneverything.net/PJ.shtml).
Here's a snippet as a teaser:
The Pentagon has the wrong things. It is glorious and glitters and has many buttons and screens. It is just the wrong military.
The great Chinese strategist Fred Tzu once said, Never use a broadsword to fight a swarm of pissed-off hornets. Exactly. You have to understand the enemy. Otherwise you are in trouble and canīt understand why. If you are a behind-the-times sort of dinosaur, the rats are going to eat your eggs. If you are an American infantry battalion, sneaky little guys behind rocks are gonna blow hell out of your up-armored Humvee with the revolving IR heads. Trust me.
You have to understand the enemy. Another classic military mind, the Prussian genius Carl von Fredwitz, said, Let the other dumb sumbitch spend hisself into the dirt, and then tear his throat out, or just buy him. Itīs what China is doing. Americans make war, and the Chinese make money. We spend wildly on an outdated military that couldnīt beat a tin drum if it was smoking Gunterīs best grass.
Here's a snippet as a teaser:
The Pentagon has the wrong things. It is glorious and glitters and has many buttons and screens. It is just the wrong military.
The great Chinese strategist Fred Tzu once said, Never use a broadsword to fight a swarm of pissed-off hornets. Exactly. You have to understand the enemy. Otherwise you are in trouble and canīt understand why. If you are a behind-the-times sort of dinosaur, the rats are going to eat your eggs. If you are an American infantry battalion, sneaky little guys behind rocks are gonna blow hell out of your up-armored Humvee with the revolving IR heads. Trust me.
You have to understand the enemy. Another classic military mind, the Prussian genius Carl von Fredwitz, said, Let the other dumb sumbitch spend hisself into the dirt, and then tear his throat out, or just buy him. Itīs what China is doing. Americans make war, and the Chinese make money. We spend wildly on an outdated military that couldnīt beat a tin drum if it was smoking Gunterīs best grass.