Thursday 20 May 2010

Constitutional Conventional Warfare

There is an argument for exploring every avenue to independence of which a constitutional convention would be one. I do not agree with it. The last one gave us devolution, a useful stepping stone to full self determination, however …

“Great armies and navies are always tempted to fight the last war, especially if they won it. The British Army entered World War I wedded to the “up and at ‘em” infantry advances of Waterloo—even though by the turn of the century the Maxim gun had made such tactics tantamount to suicide. Truly fearsome militaries prepare to fight the next war. Think of how the German Army used planes and tanks in a coordinated blitzkrieg to outmaneuver the Allies at the outset of World War II.” - Newsweek

Theonehundred is only one division in a large army fighting against the legion of doom but we can assume their feral intelligence will have by now worked out ways to circumnavigate the threat posed by a convention. Do not revisit past glories, new tactics please!

Not for Glory, nor Riches, for Honours

A.

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