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Also, how in the hell is it 2019 and there's still no major motion picture about the Nile or Trafalgar
Or just an @HBO or @netflix series following the USS Constitution...pretty sure I could provide the writers of said show in a few minutes, just from Twitter acquaintances alone
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I've noticed more and more people hating on the concept of mission command around the Army. Which either means 1) we're not executing it to its fullest potential 2) some people just want to be directed to perform every single task and not have to think or take risks
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Louis Duportail, French engineer in the service of the "United Colonies," writing in 1777 about the difficulties of the Continental Army: "it is not the good conduct of the Americans which won for them a campaign; it is rather the mistakes of the English."
My boy Louis not pulling any punches: "there is a hundred times more enthusiasm for this revolution in a single cafe in Paris than in all the united colonies."
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Reading old military engineering treatises on how to sap, the principles of sapping, and the roles of sappers becomes all the more interesting when you realize that "s" used to be printed as "f"
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