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Last Updated: Dec 7th, 2008 - 07:03:31 |
First-Strike Fiascos
On the wings of selective intelligence
President Bush (43) repeatedly says, “Knowing what I knew then, and knowing what I know today, America did the right thing in Iraq.”
Aug 4, 2006, 00:00
First-Strike Fiascos
President Bush (41): “This Will Not Stand!”
Saddam’s plan came unraveled. He may still wonder what went wrong.
Aug 4, 2006, 00:00
First-Strike Fiascos
Tonkin Gulf Incident (confusion plus eagerness equal war)
One lesson from the Tonkin Gulf experience should be instructive to all. Truth is all-pervasive; it will make itself known. America’s eagerness to obtain justification for war with North Vietnam resulted in our becoming the aggressor.
Aug 4, 2006, 00:00
First-Strike Fiascos
Hitler Betrays Russia (a bite too much of the apple)
Hitler’s vision and determination carried Germany to great victories, but his preemptive "first-strike" betrayal of his former ally, Russia, proved to be a burden his country could not bear.
Aug 4, 2006, 00:00
First-Strike Fiascos
Japan Preemptively Attacks Pearl Harbor
While feigning negotiations with America, Tojo ordered his military to preemptively attack across a wide front, knowing full well this meant all out war with America. Japan’s initial successes were staggering, but they did not achieve a knock-out blow.
Aug 4, 2006, 00:00
First-Strike Fiascos
The South Preemptively Fires First Shot at Ft. Sumter
The Southern States joined the Union freely. Thus, they thought they could withdraw freely. Mr. Lincoln disagreed.
Aug 4, 2006, 00:00
First-Strike Fiascos
The Grand Armada
In 1588, Spain ruled the seas and much of Europe. In that year, its Catholic king, Philip II, dispatched his “grand armada” to conquer the infidel, Protestant England, whose privateers had raided Spanish shipping and New World ports.
Misfortune awaited them, and Spain’s mastery of the seas was finished. Never again did Spain regain her 16th century prominence and power. England’s ascent had begun. Eventually the British would claim: "the sun never sets upon the British Empire."
Aug 4, 2006, 00:00
First-Strike Fiascos
Napoleon Invades Russia (to his demise)
Having amassed an army of 600,000 troops from a twenty-nation coalition, the largest military force ever assembled prior to World War I, Napoleon marched upon Russia, expecting to defeat them in battle, once or twice, and then negotiate conditions of peace and cooperation with Czar Alexander.
The Russians welcomed Napoleon with their own plan of war - retreat and allow the bitter Russian winter to take its toll.
Aug 4, 2005, 00:00
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