![]() ![]() And even the killers spent most of their time -I would guess an average of twenty-two hours out of twenty-four- in house-keeping for themselves, and in moving from one place to another. ![]() And of those who are entitled to battle stars on their ribbons, only a small fraction were killing in the literal sense. But even when Rommel's armies were still terrible, a surprisingly small portion of the Allied "armed forces" in Africa was engaged in fighting it. Actually, most of an army's energy goes into keeping itself alive and in being and in getting itself to where a very small portion of its numbers can fight an equally small portion of the enemy's total army.Īs soon as we won in Tunisia, we had no place for our army to fight the Reichswehr. Most people think of an army as expending its energy in fighting the enemy. Its first problem is to feed and clothe and shelter itself, and to be able to move itself from one place to another. But its first mission is simply to exist. "The ultimate objective of an army is to impose its collective will on the enemy. Strategic Capabilities: ISO Container "BattleBoxes TM": Containerize the entire U.S. ![]()
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