From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 15 23:31:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA09044 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:31:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA09033 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@xmission.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id AAA12410; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:39:01 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:39:01 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710160639.AAA12410@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: F1.17 (was Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD?) In-Reply-To: <13340.876888626@time.cdrom.com> References: <199710150129.KAA00726@word.smith.net.au> <13340.876888626@time.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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