Dr Edward Tufte posits that PowerPoint slides and the dumbing down of tech info so it could be bulletized contributed to the management decision.
The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld set to music.
FAB
FAB!
Cool timing. First flight of a Zero over Japan since WW2.
His known unknowns speech is quite lyrical when set to music.
It’s not 1944. Would hope technology has improved in 72 years so don’t have to do it the same way with the same results of mass destruction.
Most pictures of Desert Storm are sanitized. Look up Jarecke’s Just Another War photo book. Some haunting pics of dead bodies on the Highway of Death.
Exactly. The rapid advance of 1st and 2nd MarDivs was unexpected. Otherwise it was still a possibility.
Don’t forget what really made the deception work was the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and 13th MEU floating offshore on just about every working LPH and LHA etc available. Because they were trained, manned, equipped, and capable of forcible entry they provided the credible threat that forced Saddam to waste…
Isn't that actually Beaker x Tetsuo?
Logistics and the iron mountain built up during Desert Shield. We actually deployed and used the Maritime Prepo Ships like they are supposed to be by doctrine.