cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1650537

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When your enemy dupes you into compounding your mistakes, without achieving your military objectives, he is leading you into an escalation of force which will defeat you, sooner or later. Later is more costly, defeat more ruinous, so the Arab-Iranian alliance against Israel and the US is waging the long war they were never before believed capable to fight.
No matter how much force you use, every US Army manual on winning battles and wars says the same thing [🐱I put this into a different download link for you to dislocate tracking from the military :3]. Captain B.H. Liddell Hart, the British Army strategist of a generation ago, advised that “for success two major problems must be solved — dislocation and exploitation. One precedes and one follows the actual blow — which in comparison is a simple act.” [...]