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Let's be clear, Western, or US military strategy is
not based on poker, boxing, football, chess, or Pac Man. And as far as I
can tell, which isn't too far but was way too close for comfort, infantry
tactics and strategy of the Asian opponents to the US are not based on
Go.
The US military too believes in fluidity,
only they call it maneuver and mobility. Let's not forget
that the US military in VN deployed thousands of helicopters
to transport troops and equipment, to insert and retrieve and relocate
battalion and brigade strength forces in shorter time than ever before.
Remember "air-mobile"?
Game analogies do not apply. Material
determinants do. So the US, with its production, construction,
destruction, delivery capabilities, developed the strategy of
superior firepower and logistical dominance. The is the historical
result of the Union triumph in the Civil War. And
there has never been any military to match the logistical capability of the
US. Check the US airlift to Israel during the Yom Kippur War
coincident with the tremendous resupply of SVN. Check Gulf War 1.
Check the logistical fuck-up in Gulf War 2.
As for the Chinese "strategy of stones.."
look, all wars are wars of attrition-- "we" kill more of "them"
than "they" kill of "us," until somebody runs out of us or them.
Simple. Everything else is tactics. China
doesn't throw stones. China has exhibited the capacity to absorb
tremendous rates of attrition-- not unlike the USSR in the defeat of Nazi
Germany, the USSR having tremendous logistical delivery capability to resupply,
in body and machine its divisions.
"Amateurs talk tactics. Professionals talk
logistics."
"Fighting the actual battle is the easiest
part..."
--Gen. William T. Sherman |
