American Generals are civilized men, and hopefully by now women. They have at their disposal a country dedicated to morals in the treatment of human beings that oppose and seek to damage or dominate the USA. Those morals extend to our beginnings. While the Colonial USA used guerilla warfare their methods were conventional. They made sacrifices to build this country, including the fact General George Washington were among his military to know their condition and inspire them to victory.
The core to the USA military are family men and women. That has been the case from the beginning. Ask Paul Revere whom he was alerting?
By Alex Horton
...Brian M. Linn, (click here) a history professor at Texas A&M University, did just that nearly two decades ago when he published “Guardians of Empire,” a book on the U.S. military presence in Asia from 1902 to 1940.
His verdict on Trump’s claim?
“There is absolutely no evidence this occurred,” he told The Washington Post.
“It’s a made-up story. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times people say this isn’t true. No one can say where or when this occurred.”
But Trump’s claims, and the wider belief in a routinely debunked story, has far-reaching effects. Not only is the story untrue, but the convenient twist — of an insurgency defeated only with the use of brutal war tactics — points to precisely the opposite lessons Pershing and his troops learned in the Philippines campaign from 1899 to 1913, Linn said.
“The U.S. military learned escalating counterterrorism was not effective, and they took great steps, including Pershing, to de-escalate,” Linn said....
