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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: JDN who wrote (736646)	4/13/2006 3:44:30 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) of 769670

The same situations existed when it became apparent that horses needed to be replaced with tanks, and that aircraft could attach navel vessels. George Marshall performed a miracle that actually got the military ready to fight the Axis powers. It wasn't easy because Congress was very isolationist-and wanted to appropriate virtually zero. Most of the early 20th century generals eventually bit the dust to be replaced by a new generation. It's rare for an old general to believe in new ideas. One of the historic exceptions was George Patton, who built the American armor-centered combined-arms tactics for armored and armored-infantry divisions (that are woefully obsolete today-but supported by all these generals you see biting the dust under Rumsfeld.) Military reform is driven by visionaries like Marshall and Rumsfeld, and are usually accomplished over the squealing of a retarded or self-interested media, and the bitter contempt of over-the-hill generals who have already been run off. The ALTERNATIVE is that you lose a war, and rebuild along modern lines, if you ever get rid of the occupier...

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