Re: Re: Opinion - Respect

From: <laserlight@quixnet.net>

>But someone with an outside persepective might say something like "US
troops *think* they're Regular d8 quality, but they're actually Green
d6;
however, they gain experience 25% faster than the basic rate to
compensate".

That's quite perceptive - at least about WW2. Not so sure it's true now,
the
US Army has improved out of sight in the last 1/2 century.

I think it was Rommel who said something along the lines of:

"American Soldiers know less, but learn faster, than any other Army."

While we're on quotations:

My own opinion of US foreign policy recently can be summarised in the
following quote from Nasser:

"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid
moves,
only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the
possibility that we might be missing something."

And as for the US Military, Brogan had it right:

"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military
skill
is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them,
war
becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport.
And it
is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -
an
American decision that this is sport, or that it is business."