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Tactical Success and Strategic Confusion: Lessons Not Learned
« on: March 20, 2024, 09:48:09 am »
Tactical Success and Strategic Confusion: Lessons Not Learned
03/19/2024
By Ed Timperlake
Recently, we interviewed David Evans, who has had an unusual career as a Vietnam War Marine, and then a decorated journalist.

This interview underscored a key element of the Vietnam War experience. Tactical victories and significant American and allied sacrifices to establish a free Vietnam were undercut by strategic direction from Washington making decisions with little regard to the facts on the ground.

Cubical commanders made strategic decisions: Marines and U.S. and allied forces achieved significant tactical victories. The two seemed to not mesh, which is an unfortunate U.S. pattern to be repeated notably in Iraq and Afghanistan with the disastrous blitzkrieg withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Biden.

David Evans USMC Artillery officer served at two of the most legionary Marine combat bases in the history of the Corps.

https://defense.info/featured-story/2024/03/tactical-success-and-strategic-confusion-lessons-not-learned/
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Re: Tactical Success and Strategic Confusion: Lessons Not Learned
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2024, 09:49:48 am »
Lessons not learned or lesson ignored?  Or maybe lessons that don't fit the woke agenda? :pondering:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: Tactical Success and Strategic Confusion: Lessons Not Learned
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2024, 09:53:08 am »
Making the facts fit the "narrative".
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