Re: [HIST??] Culture shock

--- Roger Books <books@jumpspace.net> wrote:

> Seems I
> recall an American officer who underestimated his
> enemy, I
> believe the quote was along the lines of "Could ride
> through
> the Sioux nation with eighty men."  Underestimating
> your
> enemy causes complacency and gets people killed.
> G.A.Custer
> learned this the hard way.  

Actually, it was less a case of underestimating the
enemy than overestimating his own abilities.  Take a
look at his Civil War career--he made general and was
given a brigade of cavalry for pulling the sort of
stupid stunts he did at Little Big Horn.

John

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