Robert E. Lee Quotes
It's worth two divisions to me.
Referring to the Joint Committee for the Conduct of the War—the unit of Congress that scrutinized and often tried to micro-mange Abraham Lincoln's efforts:
Robert E. Lee, 1807-1870, Confederate General-in-Chief, Quoted in David McCullough, Truman, Touchstone, 1992
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Although jihad was a duty of Muslims, it was not a duty to die in a fight against overwhelming odds which was determined to be 2 to 1. So 2 Muslims could run from 4 but not 3.
Clark had commanded the American and NATO forces in the Serbian War where all the military and political objectives were accomplished with heavy losses to the Serbian’s and none to the allied side—what many think was the most successful war in American History. Like Eisenhower in WWII one great challenge was the political and strategic one of keeping the coalition of all the allied governments working together. His perspective had been like Eisenhower and other officers in history was much wider and geopolitical than most military officers.
While this principle is usually true, the irony is that it did not hold for the Germans in WWII. Towards the end of the war, they had developed the first jet planes which in combat were far superior to anything the allies could contest them with. In every battle they shot down many more allied plans than they lost. However they had relatively few as allied bombers had destroyed key factories and already killed most of the German experienced pilots. Also the fuel facilities were crippled. So even though the German jets were technologically superior, they were so outnumbered that they were not strategicappy successful.
He lost the vote on this issue, and the Congress created the first committee to investigate and oversee military affairs.
During World War II, she was a correspondent covering the Flying Tigers in Burma. Her basis for this propaganda statement was the ratio of Japanese to American plane losses in aerial combat in that particular theater of the war.
Robert Edward Lee was an American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He led the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 until its surrender in 1865 and earned a reputation as a skilled tactician.
