http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/08/failed-wars-great-strategies/ Questions through the veil of ignorance Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/08/failed-wars-great-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-204126 synova Tue, 13 May 2008 04:31:08 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2903#comment-204126 If we discounted any strategy used in a failed war we wouldn't use ships or tanks or planes or guns.   The fact that something was done in a war that "failed" isn't, itself, an important distinction.     I agree that walls are probably not all that helpful.   As for the forcing them on people part...  I suppose they could vote locally for them or not to get the choice thing going. If we discounted any strategy used in a failed war we wouldn’t use ships or tanks or planes or guns.   The fact that something was done in a war that “failed” isn’t, itself, an important distinction.
 
 
I agree that walls are probably not all that helpful.   As for the forcing them on people part…  I suppose they could vote locally for them or not to get the choice thing going.

]]> http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/08/failed-wars-great-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-204125 Ymarsakar Tue, 13 May 2008 01:10:30 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2903#comment-204125 It's a great thing for people to ignore historical wars when the ignorance that came about because of Vietnam's lost led to 4,000 Americans killed and more than 30,000 wounded in action. It’s a great thing for people to ignore historical wars when the ignorance that came about because of Vietnam’s lost led to 4,000 Americans killed and more than 30,000 wounded in action.

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