Re: Re: Opinion - Respect

Very good, both seem right on the mark....)

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From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@webone.com.au>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:50 AM
Subject: 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."
>