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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (27148)6/7/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (3) of 71178
 
Hasn't this been posted before? I recall that I thought it was tendentious then and think its tendencious now. Just can't see what it is supposed to support or illustrate.
I never thought miitary officers had any foresight. I remember when I was a kid listening to my physician uncle just returned from the University of Vienna where he had seen Hitler march in. He said there was going to be a terrible world war. I asked him and my father about our chances. They agreed that our military would be in terrible disarray and would probably be crushed in the initial attacks by lack of preparedness (don't hold me to the exact words). I was not surprised when MacArthur, Short, and Kimmel blew it on December 7 and 8th, or when MacArthur was surprised in June, 1950 in Korea. My uncle was disabled in World War II in the Army Medical Corps.
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