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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (271687)12/3/2009 12:47:43 PM
From: cnyndwllr4 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"Sure.. as many such actions were. No plan survives first contact with the enemy."

That's all you have to say? How many soldiers drowned before they even got to the beach at Normandy? How many of them never got off the beach, laying trapped in the sand while the German pillboxes used them for target practice. It was a bad landing and there were no contingency plans.

The responsibility falls on the tactical planners and saying that "no plan survives first contact with the enemy" is not an excuse; it's an indictment. If you understand the complexities of war, if you credit the enemy with an ability to plan, innovate and act, then you cannot commit your soldiers to a plan that will leave them in a killing field with no contingency plan.

You keep talking about our soldiers but you seem to have about as much emotional connection to them as you do to the people you want to "help" in the Middle East. Ed
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