RE: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

[Rick v100 <rickv100-at-yahoo.com>]

Sitting around in armored boxes is the easiest way to
get killed. It gives the enemy something to shoot at
and you are tied down to a single point rather then
being flexible.

Rumsfield was stating that like Clausewitz has stated
everything changes on the moment of first contact. You
can not predict everything that was\is going to
happen. Only hope that you have a better ability to
adjust then the other guy. 

Rick 

--- jon s kowitz <jonskowitz-at-hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> >It's an interesting about face nowadays.  The US is
> so polarized towards
> >the invulnerable concept (that produced the
> Abrams).  We no longer have
> >a viable, easily deployable airborne tank that our
> Marines and airborne
> >forces need.
> 
>   "...it doesn't matter how much armor you have,
> they can still blow you up"
> -Donald "I'm a total moron" Rumsfeld
> 
> ...in another amusing reversal, armored and
> mechanized units are being 
> deployed in HMMWVs instead of M1s and M2s. 
> Furthermore, that statement 
> about, "going to war with the army you have and not
> the army you want" when 
> WE started the war and had years to plan it, well...
> I'm not a fan of this 
> current administration...
> 
> 
> ...like there wasn't time to develop an armored
> car...
> 
> 
> 

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