eric stewart wrote:
[snip]
Lifting the Fog of War
<http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/bookrev/owens.html>
by Adm Bill Owens with Ed Offley
Reviewer: Maj Peter W. Huggins, USAF
[snip]
I find the rview of this book disturbing, as if Jack Boyd is
becoming the latest Prophet to be thoroughly misunderstood and
either coopted or damned for being something he wasn't.
I do not know Boyd's thoughts on guerilla war, except for a
single sentence I heard him say:
The United States lost the war in Vietnam because we
failed to follow the first principle of anti-Guerilla
war which is to offer the people a genuinely better
life than the enemy can offer them.
I have read that Dick Cheney is a "student" of Boyd.
I wish Boyd was around to "answer" these people. I think
he would say they have missed his point, but maybe I am
wrong, in which case we need to take up the spirit of
his work even if we must say that the man himself was
"limited by his time". He certainly was -- tragicly for both
himself and our country, limited by his childerearing.
Boyd rose from very little to great contributions
to our country. I can only
wonder how much higher he might have risen, both
in his contributions to our country and in his
own satisfaction in his life, had he
started off at a higher [sociocultural] altitude.
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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