On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, John Ferrell wrote:

> I think it unfortunate that "Principles of Warfare" are not taught to all 
> college freshmen. Perhaps it should even be a high school requisite. War is a 
> game of resource management. It is like all other games except there are no 
> real limits. Real people are killed. Genocide is for real. Atrocities abound. 
> Logical behavior is suspended and rational thought suppressed.

> It is unlikely that a population can be defeated without first breaking their 
> will to fight.

That is history. What should be taught is 'Mutually Assured Destruction' 
in the sense given by the cold war. Because that's the strategy that the 
use of 'strategic bombing' or the prospect of its use eventually brings 
about in an enemy.

Peter
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