And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Russia isn't planning to invade anytime soon, but for about twenty years, one didn't know when or if. Russians considered a 10% casualty rate in an exercise to be an acceptable rate. In the West that is unthinkable.
The light went on for the Russians during Gulf War 1 when they saw their Iraqi-armed and trained people melt like dew on a warm morning.
Back in 84 or so, we had previously dug positions overlooking the Fulda gap. That's where we were to go with our TOW missile tracks when...not if...the Russians attacked. As best I remember we had 12 missiles and probably would not get a re-load. We were to stay there after running out of missiles with only an M-60 and small arms to D.I.P. or die-in-place. Sure glad that never happened.
Hey Anon - I remember those days well. I was in Europe a few years later and ran the same mission. We'd ride out to our GDP - German Defense Position and morbidly pick out the exact spot we expected to be killed.
Russia isn't planning to invade anytime soon, but for about twenty years, one didn't know when or if. Russians considered a 10% casualty rate in an exercise to be an acceptable rate. In the West that is unthinkable.
ReplyDeleteThe light went on for the Russians during Gulf War 1 when they saw their Iraqi-armed and trained people melt like dew on a warm morning.
Back in 84 or so, we had previously dug positions overlooking the Fulda gap. That's where we were to go with our TOW missile tracks when...not if...the Russians attacked. As best I remember we had 12 missiles and probably would not get a re-load. We were to stay there after running out of missiles with only an M-60 and small arms to D.I.P. or die-in-place. Sure glad that never happened.
ReplyDeleteHey Anon - I remember those days well. I was in Europe a few years later and ran the same mission. We'd ride out to our GDP - German Defense Position and morbidly pick out the exact spot we expected to be killed.
ReplyDeleteits missing the mushroom cloud.
ReplyDeleteStraight out of Rommel's playbook: strike hard, strike fast, and do not disperse your forces.
ReplyDeleteYou only need a couple Warthogs to turn that to scrap metal.
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