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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (14816)11/3/2003 12:36:04 AM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (3) of 793707
 
OTOH, the French professional army would have said the same of the Maginot Line in 1939.

I think American officers may have heard of it.

The Maginot Line was fixed artillery. What Rumsfeld would deny to the Army is highly mobile artillery.

Speed and maneuver isn't something new. It's what made the Blitzkrieg effective. It's a tactic the Germans may well have learned from their study of the American Civil War. Lee and Jackson used it to astounding effect. The one thing that they lacked was heavy artillery, which the Union had in abundance.

A combination of mobility and heavy firepower worked well in Iraq. Rumsfeld already cancelled the next generation of heavy artillery. Maybe he is a visionary, and the Army planners are a bunch of dopes who have never heard of the Maginot Line. A future generation of soldiers will get to find out, when they go to war with the weapons we design now.
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