Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:39:01 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: F1.17 (was Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD?) Message-ID: <199710160639.AAA12410@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <13340.876888626@time.cdrom.com> References: <199710150129.KAA00726@word.smith.net.au> <13340.876888626@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> Ooh, wonderful, yet another one of those gross oversimplications we've
> come to expect from the rest of the world, firmly locked into its
> comfortable and somewhat smug assumptions that all U.S. males have the
> same opinions and mindset regarding the use and disposition of
> military forces. :-)
Jordan, Terry and I, for instance, could probably go on endlessly about
the various virtues of advanced aircraft vs. space-based energy weapons
vs. one *really good* missile. We agree on very little except that we
really ought to have the biggest guns. Might makes Right.
> Suffice it to say that this is not true, and if the "average american
> male" seems to spend what may seem to be an inordinate amount of time
> thinking about military hardware, it's for many good reasons.
For instance, keeping all you little piss-ant countries in line. ;^)
> I think you overestimate the amount of innovation on
> tomorrow's battlefield, and it's no surprise that many of the tactics
> we're using today were invented several thousand years ago in China.
For instance, that really cool manuever Stormin' Norman used to snocker
the "million man army" is called "Hannibal's Wheel." Any guesses as to
why it's called that?
Hint: The original armored vehicles used in this manuever were
elephants.
Those who don't understand history are doomed to be sqaushed by it.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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