Recommended, along with this thesis paper.
If one ever had to resist a Communist takeover of one’s country, there would be much to gained by studying and identifying not only key materiel and communications nodes of the conquering forces, but also the political infrastructure by which the Communists obtained and maintained power.
Resistance efforts could then be focused at not only interdicting directly and indirectly those nodes and human terrain elements, but causing the occupying regime to dedicate resources as force protection to their cadres which otherwise would be deployed against friendly forces.
Thanks be to Lee Greenwood, such a contingency can remain only the fantasy of alternate history majors.
From his NYT obit, General Loan was quoted regarding the execution:
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…Mr. Loan later suggested that the execution had not been the rash act it might have appeared to be but had been carried out because a deputy commander he had ordered to shoot had hesitated. ”I think, ‘Then I must do it,’ ” he recounted. ”If you hesitate, if you didn’t do your duty, the men won’t follow you.”
Vo Suu, a cameraman at the scene for NBC News, recalled that immediately after the shooting the general had walked over to a reporter and said, ”These guys kill a lot of our people, and I think Buddha will forgive me.”
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Resist.
The good general understood what he had to do.
ReplyDeleteIf you elect to fight out of uniform, you should know what to expect if captured.
ReplyDelete>> If one ever had to resist a Communist
ReplyDelete>> takeover of one’s country, there would be
>> much to gained by studying and identifying
>> not only key materiel and communications
>> nodes of the conquering forces,
>> wirecutterAugust 19, 2012 1:03 PM
>> The good general understood what he had to do.
Talk about missing the forest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh
The Vietnamese independence movement started in 1941. Japan and France had no business in Vietnam and neither did the US. People with a different language and culture should be free to make their own choices, independent of foreign influence let alone overt/military or covert/political occupation.
Any blog with the name "free" in it should recognize and understand that concept, the concept of "self-determination". When you think you must resort to torture (as practiced in the Phoenix program) to continue occupying a one of your colonies, then you either lost sight of your principles or you didn't have any to begin with.
Reading the book may or may not be a good use of your time. But, holding it up as a model to follow? You make good servants to centralized power (controlled by our oligarchs), because they can't occupy and rule the planet without you and your support of cruel means of subjugation.
Enlighten us with your name, "Anonymous."
DeleteMuch like our current wars, I don't think we should have ever been there *UNLESS* we were willing to pull out all the stops and do what needed to be done to ensure victory.
ReplyDeleteThis includes carpet-bombing cities, shooting every man, woman and child found in company of "The Enemy" or his materiel, along with whatever else (including the occasional REAL "atrocity")might need to be thrown in just to make sure everyone understands that we're some crazy, nasty, just-plain-SICK mortar-forkers and you REALLY don't want to get on our bad side!
In other words "Go REAL, or go HOME!"
There's no such thing as a "NICE WAR." The time to win "hearts and minds" campaigns is *BEFORE* the bullets start flying!
Being forced to watch your buddies die to satisfy the ROE, or take the same hill 3 times in a month (with 20%+ in casualties each time) then return to the FOB and watch The Enemy move back in and rebuild their defenses is absolute IDIOCY - and it's no wonder that (a) it comes (like all TRUE idiocy) straight from DC and (b) it has a deleterious effect on the mental health of the survivors.
Patton's bit about winning wars "by making the other poor b@st@rd die for HIS" side was right on IMHO -- and once again there was nothing in there about "hearts and minds"... You kill (and kill and kill) as many of them as you have to, and keep killing them until the survivors decide they don't want to fight any more.
Personally I have little doubt that it will take a nuke (or eleventy) to solve our "middle-east" problems, for the same reason(s) we had to use them on the Japs -- fanatics of all stripes are hard to convince, especially when dying in the service of their G*d/Emporer/Etc is not even considered a sacrifice but a goal to be attained... Truth be told, I'm not sure even nuclear devastation would "reach" the musloids, we may be forced to just kill them *ALL* and let "allah" sort them out... But (as is so often the case) I digress...
This pic was never all that shocking to me - the good General understood what needed to be done, and he did it. Some 5th Columnist (aka "journalist") was in the right place at the wrong time and was able to wind up the bleeding hearts, and...
Am I the only one who finds it telling that these traitors call their product "columns" and themselves "columnists"? -- much less that the television version is called "programming"??!!
Some 5th Columnist (aka "journalist") was in the right place at the wrong time and was able to wind up the bleeding hearts, and...
ReplyDeleteAnd wind them up they did.