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Karl Marlantes

Friday 26th of April 2024

Gulf War The score was roughly 100,000 to 127 in the Gulf War and we loved it. Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War © 2015 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Be advised. I am where I am and you are where you are. Where I am, I see goddamned trucks. A Marine lieutenant near the Laotian border, responding to his batallion commander, who, although more than 20 kilometers away, had radioed back to the lieutenant that it was impossible for enemy trucks to be anywhere near the position from which the lieutenant had reported sighting them Quoted by Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal, June 3-4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Vietnam War In recent years, the prudence we learned from our involvement in Indochina has been widely derided as “Vietnam syndrome.” If by Vietnam syndrome we mean the belief that the U.S. should never again engage in (a) military interventions in foreign civil wars without clear objectives and a clear exit strategy, (b) “nation building” in countries about whose history and culture we are ignorant, and (c) sacri- ficing our children when our lives, our way of life, or “government of, by, and for the people” are not directly threatened, then we should never get over Vietnam syndrome. It's not an illness, it's a vaccination. Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal, June 3-4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com