As an example of strategic brilliance, such a war would rank up there with drinking wood alcohol.īut this is not surprising. Now, Field Marshall Pompeo seems to want a war with Iran, a country with eighty million people, a fine army, and massive missile forces within range of Israel and of much of the world’s oil supply. When America invaded Afghanistan…you see the pattern. When Russia invaded Afghanistan, it did not expect to lose. When America attacked Vietnam, leaving with its tail between it legs was not a hoped-for outcome. When Hitler invaded Russia, Russian troops drinking in Berlin was not among his war aims. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, their plans did not include American Gis diddling their daughters in Tokyo. When Germany invaded France in 1914, it expected a short, victorious war of movement, but got a bloody four years of attrition war. The American Civil War was supposed to last an afternoon at First Manassas wrong by four years and 650,000 dead, equivalent to 6.5 million today. We might consider this when pondering any martial eruption against Tehran.įor example, when Napoleon invaded Russia, he did not plan for Russian troops to march in the streets of Paris. ![]() At risk of repeating myself, some thoughts on said war.Ī point worth considering is that wars (very) often do not go as the aggressors plan. In light of his desire to get America into a war with Iran, plus the acrid whiff of desperation wafting from the White House, plus increased provocations against Iran, one may wonder about such a war being used to distract from Mr. Today, God save the Queen, the country is in the hands of pathologically aggressive Cold War leftovers, in particular Mr.
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