Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/20/06 11:05 AM To cc Subject Re: High Tech vs. the Orb WAS Re: the honing of Vlad Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: >>Military action, at some fundamental point, involves an infantry unit that >>stands on a given spot and says "This is mine unless you can come take it >>away from me." >> >>Until this happens, the war isn't ever really won. >> ><snip> > >You don't have to hold territory in order to achieve all military >goals. Sometimes all you want is to persuade the other army to go >home. Assassination and terrorism are ways to achieve military goals. > >We didn't hold mainland Japan when the Japanese surrendered in WWII. You have to hold some territory *somewhere* in order to win. Maybe you didn't have to take it away from your opponent, but at least you had to keep him from taking yours away from you. Majikjon