Re: [GZG] [OT] Books (Weber/White/Meier)

It's been a long time since I read JFC Fuller's tanke on Grant and Lee.

On 7/21/08, Ken Hall <khall39@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Combat is the ultimate argument of nations, economics only sets the
> parameters of the combat. Good fighting overcomes economics
> frequently. Having all the resources in the world is useless without
> fighting men capable of turning that into effective combat results.
> Look at the American Civil War--until the Federal army could develop
> into a capable force under fighting generals who could use it
> effectively, all the numbers of bodies and cannons and supplies
> couldn't beat Bobbie Lee.
>
> John
> --
> "Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
> and again. We're looking for thousands of Persians."
> --Vita Aureliani
>
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>   John--I take it you're not a fan of JFC Fuller's take on Grant and
Lee,
> then.... ;-)
>
>   Ken
>
>

-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani

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