The pics on long bien bridge are interesting.
Col. Logan was my marketing teacher '91-92.

He coordinated SAC strikes with forward units , he had tons of intel to disseminate. His singature did find its way to Kissinger to and Johnson's desk for their brieifngs.

He always told me of one bridge that could have been bombed to deny the North easy resupply of the DMZ.

This is that bridge?

See they didn't care to stilfe NVA access to the area. It would have been to easy to isolate regions, secure them and mover forward.

Instead make our troops overhwelming numbers and facilitate massive proliferation. The war then kicked overdrive when it was seen howe tough resistance would be.

The objectives were overruled by the need to make a case for more logistical support.

From advisory status to a lead role. The word escapes me what this policy of spiked deployment stages was called.

Anyways it's kind of interesting to see a bridge built in the 20s pristine and intact.

This is certainly the same bridge. He said if it was taken out it would have stifled their ability to resupply troops and provide manpower.

There is a point to this, to discuss the next post.

Another great link regarding this author, former NVA Bao Ninh, whose book The Sorrow of War was benned for its criticism of the government after the war. To see VVAW have someone endorse this tale is proof of the universal kinship all those who served undergo in deeply personal terms.

A 'nam vet, from the other side of the war, is haunted with what he faced and writes of the disillusionment of war's realtiy and the lost youth of one who served.

With PTSD, a drinking habit(among other things), and in an economy where jobs didn't come as promised and the younger generation ridicules his contribution.

The grunts get crapped on like no others. Po boys, sent to the front as fodder, returned to empty promise.

WHo is going to give this new generation out there their voice? The best to this point has been Michael Moore. Let the war tell the story.

But in the hurry to isolate these viewpoints and ostracize the personality/presenter we must find a new media voice to do this.

There needs to be a loyal veteran who dissents and can tell this story from the perspective of some there now. Who will give someone this chance? Where is the brave producer who will risk a career being ended to make this possible?

So the relevance of this story is how it shows two seperate realities.

One for those who call the shots and often would rather see issues drag out to further objectives (two-year elections, appropriations votes, logistical staging increase, media manipulation).

One for those in the front lines, put into situations where there is no complete right or wrong answer. Just diminished degrees of one or the other and these actions entail portions of both from either perspective.

"Run on the war" at the 2 year point.

We've seen the same approach- isolate possible coalition help for profit from the outset.

Allow proliferation to occur so we must match it in total numbers.

Turn the indigenous population against us instead of winning them over in full, and resume escalation policy.

Where is our long bien bridge in Iraq?

AlQaqqa
City of the Mosques
Green Zone

Every place there has been clear instance of poor planning and execution of policy. The overall intent seems to have been an approach that makes long drawn-out deployments necessity.

Attainable targets ignored for the political purpose. Reverse spin approach to resolution that puts our finest men and women in uniform into maximum danger.

The draft hasn't come yet. When they push greens into units, and increase rank for lack of merit the chemistry of effective ground level success is compromised.

It's damned tough enough for green enlistments who made the choice to serve.

We've gotta get ours home soon, before they make that next step. Wolfowitz in the world bank will spike up logisitical support in nearby lands for Hallibechtel.

Paul Bremer has already attended outsourcing conferences for medical service industry. He met last week in Dallas to handle the surging casualty rates greens would require support for.

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