Re: CDR: RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: > Choate: > > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > > > Carl von Clausewitz was a Prussian militarist and intellectual around > > > 1800. He is mainly remembered for his book 'On War' which was the > > > first Western theoretical treatise on war

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-16 Thread proffr11
>>von Clausewitz,Ceasar are fine as far as they go.(being authoritarian losers) How did small armies like the free and democratic Greeks defeat huge armies of slaves? Asked and answered."The force more powerful" goes way back.Soli-fucking-darity baby! Check out Xenophon,the retreat of the 10,

Re: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-16 Thread Elyn Wollensky
> > Julius Ceasar was one of the principles in the Roman Civil War. In > > 49 BC he and his army crossed the Rubicon, a river outside of Rome. > > This is regarded as the tipping point at which he showed himself > > to be fully committed to seizing power. After you cross the Rubicon, > > there i

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-16 Thread Aimee Farr
Choate: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: > > > Carl von Clausewitz was a Prussian militarist and intellectual around > > 1800. He is mainly remembered for his book 'On War' which was the > > first Western theoretical treatise on war and warfare. > > Re: Jomini Jomini? Who is talking abo

Re: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-16 Thread Jim Choate
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: > Carl von Clausewitz was a Prussian militarist and intellectual around > 1800. He is mainly remembered for his book 'On War' which was the > first Western theoretical treatise on war and warfare. Re: Jomini And it's MODERN war, not just western war. >

Re: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread Ken Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: > > > Not even our > > military is exposed to the sort of personalized fear and exposure that > > public servants and their families experience today. > > Pure Karma... I thought the military were supposed to be "public servan

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread Faustine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: Peter wrote: > > See Clausewitz. > > See 49 BC Julius Ceasar. > > See "failure to provide context". > >>There's a fine balance between assuming a common background >>which provides shorthand referents, and

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Trei, Peter wrote: > There's a fine balance between assuming a common background > which provides shorthand referents, and being a showoff. Um, I resolved the references just fine. It's just I missed the context, because proffr goes to /dev/null

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread Trei, Peter
> Eugene Leitl[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: > > > See Clausewitz. > > See 49 BC Julius Ceasar. > > See "failure to provide context". > There's a fine balance between assuming a common background which provides shorthand referents, and being a showoff.

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread jamesd
-- On 13 Feb 2002, at 12:16, Aimee Farr wrote: > Jim Bell was arrested for stalking "protected persons." Not > even our military is exposed to the sort of personalized > fear and exposure that public servants and their families > experience today.' Perhaps that is because the military do n

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: > See Clausewitz. > See 49 BC Julius Ceasar. See "failure to provide context".

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread Aimee Farr
Leitl: I wrote: > > "War is an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will." Where a > > man's family is concerned, words count. > > WTF is this supposed to mean? See Clausewitz. > > I'm fairly certain you just crossed the Rubicon. > > You make even less sense than proffr. See 49 BC Jul

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-14 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Aimee Farr wrote: > Jim Bell was arrested for stalking "protected persons." Not even our > military is exposed to the sort of personalized fear and exposure that > public servants and their families experience today. Maybe they shouldn't have become public servants, then. >

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-13 Thread proffr11
>>There are MILLIONS of people that stand between that boy and evil of any sort, and support his Daddy.<< Well if they're as scatterbrained as you I'm concerned.What if his Daddy is evil? He seems to me to be. >>He might read this someday, and he'll probably come to the conclusion that his

RE: Say a goodnight prayer for joshua.

2002-02-13 Thread Aimee Farr
There are MILLIONS of people that stand between that boy and evil of any sort, and support his Daddy. He might read this someday, and he'll probably come to the conclusion that his father was a tolerant man, despite perceptions to the contrary. Jim Bell was arrested for stalking "protected person