Moonbat Professors teaching Sun Tzu’s “Art of War”

There’s a very simple way to handle it. Invite the NG to bring in lecturers to teach the class. That’s what we did back in the 80s. I took Strategy, Tactics, and Simulation from Cpt. Flanagan even though I wasn’t really a ROTC cadet. Technically, I was one for the semester; they let you take one class without having to put on a uniform, do PT at the butt-crack of dawn, or anything like that.

I learned a lot about the differences between free men who volunteer, and are well trained, vs. conscripts. For example, every single US soldier knows how to read maps. In the Red Army, you’d only expect the platoon commander to have that skill. You could tell his tank by the fact that it has two antennae (one for talking to the other tanks in his platoon and the other for up the chain of command). So everybody in the US Harmy knew that if they could disable that tank, the remainder of the platoon was ineffective. That sort of knowledge is a big force multiplier for our side.

Every base had the Dunn-Kempf simulation system, and buck privates played it just like brigade commanders did. Our entire system is based on teaching sound principles to the entire military, so that when the reality on the ground doesn’t match with what the planners back at HQ were thinking, we can improvise.

I saw a quote from one of the old Russian generals that this was what drove them nuts. We would do war games with a scout team playing by OPFOR doctrine, and get experience against it. They couldn’t do that, because near as the general could tell, we didn’t have any coherent doctrine to practice against.

The Monster on May 17, 2007 at 10:05 PM