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July 23, 2006

Asymmetric

Eccentricity: Asymmetric Warfare


Finally! It dawned on me what asymmetric warfare is. It's what those dastardly Rebels and Colonials were doing -- hiding behind trees and killing Hessian and British troops instead of Coming Out and Forming Squares Like Real Men.

The very term belongs to the whiny-assed. It is insane to complain that your enemy is doing things to you that you can't fight back against. And to use that term for someone who commits suicide is the epitome of whiny. Oh yes, kamikazes were masters of asymmetric warfare. I don't think our parents complained about their deaths -- only about the ones they caused.

3 points:
First: Asymmetric Warfare is not a whine, but rather a call to fight by different means. It is important to know whether your enemy is going to invade DC or destroy your banking infrastructure. Calling the warfare “asymmetric” tells us that the latter is more likely that the former...

Second: The American Revolutionaries for the most part formed squares and fought like “real men”. When they tried to hide behind rocks and trees, they got their assess handed to them. The minutemen are great in the popular imagination, but were terribly ineffective in an historical fight. Concentration of firepower and having depth with which to maintain a bayonet charge was important with those weapons. Getting off 1 shot and being killed by your enemies was not so much...

Third: it was our Grandparents who fought Kamikazes. Our parents drank them, not shot at them...


Posted by Andrew at July 23, 2006 10:10 AM

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Being as I am verging n sixty, let me assure you it was my parents, whippersnapper.

Posted by: Scorpio [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 25, 2006 04:33 PM