Norman Schwartzkopf rejected the notion of body counts being a measure of success.
WWI was such a War and a debacle as European Generals determined success by who was dying the fastest.
That means that who ever feiled the last Million Troops would win.
WWII was a war of territory and a defined victory.
Korea was a War of Territory. That is why hostilities stopped at an agreement. If bodies were the meansure, we won. We had a greater means of killing and did kill more of them, but Mao pointed out that he could lose 4 a second forever and he would never run out, so continuation was eventual defeat.
Vietnam was an attempted repeat of Korea without popular support, so the insane measure of body count came out in military doctrine again. We won every major engagement and Civilian John Paul Vann defeated General Giap, the Nepolianic Strategist of Dien Bien Phu who defeated the French.
We won that Body Count.
Sun Tzu proved that War is fought between the ears before the first shot is fired.
This means that the War is won or lost in the resolve of the Congress, who almost surrendered had they not heard of the News of Victory at Kings Mountain.
Sun Tzu linked victory to the will of leadership.
For that, I endorse your message and facts other than the Body Count theory. It never worked, otherwise there would be no North Korea, and would be no Communism in Vietnam.
Wars are lost only when a People lose the resolve to continue in the struggle.
Wars of Culture, like Vietnam, like Iraq, where complete Victory and destruction is not an option will always look like this.
Clinton and Buch Lied, and the Democrats won the Election based on a War they set the stage for.
So what are they upset about?
Did not enough people die for their Election?
But I thought body counts were not important?
By the way, Congress Bought the Equipment for the Forces, not the President. Congress approved the means of training as well.
Diane Feinstein’s husband made hundreds of Millions off the Contracts she gave to his Companies.
So, who needs to be impeached?
If all of this were not true, it would strain credulity.
Give it to them Bob
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Oh as for people not seeing it coming in VT…Not true!
Plenty saw it. Liek the 63 of 70 who abandoned a class with him because he scared the hades out of them.
Teachers, Professors, and a Judge, but nobody took appropriate action.
Then when he came into a crowded building none but an Old victim of the Nazi’s took direct action.
America’s best a brightest, Academia is PATHETIC.
Repeat it after me Mr. Parks, you can say it!
Say IT! Say IT! Scream it like Sam Kinnison.
You can. Do not be afraid, for evil triumphs when onw good man says nothing.
Your a Good Man, Say it.
Academia is PATHETIC!
American Males have been ehtically castrated.
America is like the People fo Flight 93. only choosing to take action when it is too late and the Cockpit has been breeched.
PATHETIC!
Read the Declaration fo Independence. IT explains that People are PAthetic and will endure things to the moment the chains are placed on their limbs, when it is then too late.
This is why there is only one Remedy to teh Pathetic nature of Man, VIGILANCE!
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
–Dwight David Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Apr. 16, 1953.