RE: Nobility.... or not....

--- Iain Davidson <iain@arath.org.uk> wrote:
> <<And regardless of the alleged expertise of the SAS
> the UK still couldn't
> hold Ireland (which by comparison is about the size
> of West Virginia), and
> never did finish off the IRA in Northern Ireland.>>
> 
> As a military man, you should know more than any of
> us that when the
> politicians get involved..... ;-)
> 
> And as any SAS personnel (like most Special Forces)
> is that the military can
> only impose a solution, not negotiate one. Its the
> battle for hearts and
> minds that is most important. IMHO.

Only if you can kick the enemy's ass on the field of
battle--if you can't, then hearts and minds become
irrelevant.  The SAS got smacked around by Iraqi
3rd-line troops because of this attitude.  They
discovered that being SAS does NOT make them
bulletproof and that numbers do tell.

John

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