Even after working last night, and carrying lots of stuff up and down stairs, I still had trouble sleeping till very early in the morning. Tossing and turning in your bed isn't exactly the best experience in the world. So in the end, I gave up and read. I'm reading this book about the WW2 Normandy landings. Its quite interesting. I'm quite into all those military thingys, so that kind of makes sense I guess.
I used to think that the British only had one plan of deception to make Hitler think that they were going to land elsewhere. Now I found out that they had quite a few. There were deception plans in place to make them think that there were going to be landings in places like Finland, the south of France, and even in the Balkans. It makes me wonder how you could move a whole army from Britain to the Balkans without anyone noticing. In today's world, that'd be impossible. Satellite surveilance would have it covered the whole way.
Not only have intelligence gathering techniques changed dramatically during the last 60 years, military tactics have as well. Most of the time, air superiority would pummel any standing army into the ground. It was fairly silly of Saddam to think that he could win a conventional war against the US during the first Gulf war. He should have learnt from the communist victories in Korea and Vietnam, and with the benefit of hindsight, from the current Iraq war as well. The only way to beat a standing US army is to hide in the population, to be able to use your advantage of numbers and force them to make close combat.
So some advice to any nations thinking of standing up to the American military machine. Stay home.
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