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To: TimF who wrote (157311)	1/2/2003 9:06:02 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1581311

In any case a large number does not equal <?i> Interesting PBS article on "Overwhelming Force". Interestingly, we have a "Weinberger Doctrine", a "Powell Doctrine", but Clinton's Anthony Lake failed to generate interest in a "Lake Doctrine"... pbs.org

To: TimF who wrote (157311)	1/2/2003 10:25:03 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1581311

In any case a large number does not equal "overwhelming force". A large number deployed quickly and striking hard and relentlessly until the enemy is defeated is a better definition of overwhelming force. In Vietnam we slowly built up giving the enemy a lot of time to get used to dealing with our presence in the war and we did not keep the pressure on all the time once we where there. There will halts and lulls. We often allowed the enemy to decide how intense the conflict would be instead of forcing them to fight at our pace and on our time table. There were also a lot of political restrictions on how force would be used Really, it was kind of stupid of me to provide a link to a source of info re the subject. Naturally, you all know better the reality. Well, you need to rewrite American history books. They claim that we lost the war because we did not have sufficient experience fighting in a jungle environment. But what do the history books know....clearly the Right knows the real truth. ted