Contracting Mediocrity
Here at the Academy, deals are regularly struck with authors or publishers to incorporate a text into a course curriculum, and then force cadets to buy the book by taking money out of their pay. What's the problem with these agreements? The students are blessed with gems such as the following, taken from Clayton K.S. Chun's War, Military Theory, and Strategy:"In [19th century Admiral] Mahan's view, sea transportation provided the most efficient and effective means to move goods and materials across the globe" (Chun, 2002, p. 59).
No kidding. What were those other theorists proposing? Teleportation?
Then we have "In his 1946 book The Absolute Weapon: Atomic Power and World Order Brodie made several observations about nuclear warfare that would help shape and define the debate about nuclear war in the United States about nuclear war and warfare in general" (Chun, 2002, p. 64) (emphasis added).
I wonder what they were talking about back then?
Finally, my favorite is the prophetic axiom that "Wars between sea powers that were separated by oceans or that were island powers were most likely to be fought" (Chun, 2002, p. 62).
He is spot on! If two nations go to war, they will almost definitely fight. The war. That they're fighting.
posted by Patrick Sauncy @ 15:16
1 Comments:
I dont think you're right about that.
Maybe, if two nations are at war, They might hug.
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