"If we have multiiple, highly skilled Special Operations forces identifying targets for precision-guided munitions, we will need fewer conventional ground forces. That's an important lesson learned from Afghanistan."
— General Tommy Franks, in "American Soldier"
"If we have multiple, highly skilled Special Operations forces identifying targets for precision-guided munitions, we will need fewer conventional ground forces. That's an important lesson learned from Afghanistan."
— George W. Bush, in "Decision Points"
No, I have not read both books. I have not read either book. I am not even 100% sure that this is not the stuff of urban legend (after all, pages are not cited). I snagged these two quotes from http://www.doonesbury.com/, and while the entries under the "Say What?" heading usually amuse me, sometimes they are taken too far out of context to understand or to interpret any way other than incorrectly, so I continue to be a bit suspicious.
(Besides, doesn't the site's webmaster know that book titles belong in italics or underlined and not in quotes??)
Maybe they had the same ghost writer. Maybe Tommy Franks is George W. Bush's ghost writer. Maybe the laughable part is the idea that anyone with significant political or military power in this country has actually learned anything from the military operations in Afghanistan.
Draw your own conclusions as you will.
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