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John McCain and Hillary Clinton are Unfit to Lead the Military and the Foreign Policy
John McCain is unfit to serve as the leader of United States' foreign policy and its military force for these reasons:
- He does not have the will to avoid combat.
- He does not understand strategy, only tactics.
- He does not attempt to understand the enemy.
- He does not correctly identify the enemy.
- He does not change strategy nor tactics to suit the situation.
- He does not understand the function of logistics in an army.
- He does not plan ahead, instead working reactively on the terms of the enemy.
- He does not understand the benefits of retreating to apply different
tactics instead of laying siege which only consumes resources against
a well-supplied enemy.
- He does not learn from past mistakes, which are made by all.
- He does not favour long-term strategy over short-term strategy.
- He does not understand the role of the enemy's morale.
- He does not understand dividing the enemies and attacking them separately.
Hillary Clinton is unfit to serve as the leader of United States' foreign policy and its military force for these reasons:
- She does not have the will to avoid combat.
- She does not ensure that she has the most correct and up-to-date information about the current situation before acting.
- She is, by lack of understanding, unable to seek alternative courses of action.
- She does not manage personnel well, showing preference for loyalty over capability.
- She does not account for changing circumstances in her planning.
- She does not approach warfare on her own terms, instead relying on the terms set before by others.
- She does not favour reality over perception.
- She does not understand the value of nontraditional tactics in achieving success.
- She does not value long-term strategy over short-term strategy.
- She does not allow for attacking the enemy where it thinks it is safe.
- She does not require sufficient planning before entering into a war.
- She does not learn from past mistakes, which are committed by all.
- She is unable to abandon traditional and conventional strategies in favour of new, agile ones.
- She does not understand the differences in strategy and tactics required by facing a stronger, equal or inferior force.
- She does not appreciate the resources required by warfare.
- She opts for haste of execution over slowness of preparation for an overall slowing of the operation.
- She does not inspire confidence in the army for these shortcomings.







Comments (1)
Very good summary. I am particularly impressed by the fact that you didn't use all the same ones for each; that you really identified each one's deficiencies.
March 19, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
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