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>Military statistics should always be suspect. At one point our
>intelligence section estimated we were destroying 245% of material
>shipped on the Trail. General Jones quipped, "They shure got one hell
>of a recycling program going."
This must be akin to having enough nuclear armament to destroy the world 7
times. Of course, if the Russians matched us, we'd surely need 8X. "By
God, they're AHEAD of us!"
>High tech weapons against low tech targets will not bring victory. Bottom
>ine, IMHO, the other side had greater will and more staying power
>than we had.
And sadly, the grunts in the field saw from experience what all the
intelligence and strategy people missed by not even reading a history
book--what was 20 more years of fighting for independence after having
survived 1000? When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.
***NOTE ADDRESS CHANGE---AGAIN!!!********
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