“ Americans in 1950 rediscovered something that since Hiroshima they had forgotten: you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life – but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did, by putting your young men into the mud.”It’s a similar situation to the one the USA faced in Vietnam in 1964: i.e. the “good guys” are going to lose unless US ground forces intervene and push them back. The pin-prick / warning shot air strikes aren’t stopping ISIS.
T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War, Proud Legions, p. 406.
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Friday, October 10, 2014
Iraq- Why Air Support Is Too Risky To Use A Lot
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