Thomas Boulton Fargo Quotes
The habitual relationships built through exercises and training is our biggest guarantor of access in time of need, over time, can develop into habitual use of certain facilities by deployed US forces with the eventual goal of being guaranteed use in a crisis, or permission to preposition logistics stocks and other critical material in strategic forward locations.
Thomas Boulton Fargo, Admiral & Commanding Office, US Pacific Command, March 2003
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What he does not consider is that a large number of Americans don’t want their government having grand strategies if there is no threat to the United States or no critical national interest. For them crises and threats are all that should occupy our foreign affairs.
Then Navy Assistant Secretary Roosevelt had just seen photos of Samuel P. Langley's early attempts at manned flight.
The French and English, with larger numbers and more experienced troops and officers, wanted the American units to come under the command or their officers and be integrated into the allied army. However Wilson established the tradition that American troops fighting abroad most always fight as an American Army under American Command. Although resented then and into the 21st century by America’s allies who are expected to fight under American command, it is a tradition that no American major politician has seriously challenged since then.
Ironically, Lieberman was using this quotation to campaign against Bush’s son, George W. Bush.
Cody and Theodore Roosevelt were acquainted. It is likely that he used the “Rough Rider” phrase in the name of his proposed school. See {612422}
This quotation is very controversial among historians. Beverly was in a sense the first American historian, although he had no formal training. His extolling the military and sharpshooting virtues of his fellows may or may not have been an exaggeration both as to their skill with firearms and their ability as soldiers. There is much evidence that only a minority of the people of Virginia possessed firearms at the time yet Beverly’s image is the one that has come down to us in the romanticized view of early America. Even fellow Virginian, George Washington {613056} complained that his Virginia civilians made poor soldiers compared with “regulars” who had been trained to shoot, and when Virginia militia reported for duty less than one quarter had firearms which were very expensive and not very accurate at the time.
Even in a relatively frontier state like Indiana at the time, there was little enthusiasm for a militia. See {613320}.
Gates had been assigned to take over command of the Southern Department which was a total mess with no provisions or money. He took over from General Lincoln {49731} who had failed for lack of resources and support and then Gates’s career was almost destroyed by the same problem.
