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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 20, 2017 at 6:36 pm
(August 20, 2017 at 6:28 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (August 20, 2017 at 6:20 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Opening moves especially in an operation of such scale are generally going to be chaotic .
Of course. All war is the struggle to impose the order of plans upon the chaos of battle -- and as Clausewitz (or was it Moltke the Elder) pointed out -- "No plan survives the first contact with the enemy."
Indeed waterloo , Sekigahara and Chibi show this is true
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 20, 2017 at 8:58 pm
(August 20, 2017 at 6:28 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (August 20, 2017 at 6:20 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Opening moves especially in an operation of such scale are generally going to be chaotic .
Of course. All war is the struggle to impose the order of plans upon the chaos of battle -- and as Clausewitz (or was it Moltke the Elder) pointed out -- "No plan survives the first contact with the enemy."
Or as Mike Tyson put it, 'Everyone has a plan til you get punched in the face.'
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 22, 2017 at 4:11 pm
(August 14, 2017 at 6:32 pm)Rahul Wrote: I too am a fellow Southerner with a Confederate ancestor. My position on the removal of public Confederate monuments is rather apathetic. I really don't care one way or the other. The Civil War has been over for over 150 years now. We lost. We Southerners need to get over it. Remember our past yes, but try to bring it all back, no.
I've got a LOT of Confederate ancestors. lol
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