Fascinating. It's interesting that when the enemy apparently has superior tactical knowledge of the area of combat (forest/swamp), it's rationalized as "the certain instinct and sense of security of an animal, whereas any soldier reared and trained in a civilized country was severely restricted in his movements and thereby placed at a disadvantage." And that, "Even the most thorough training applied to troops from the West cannot replace the natural instinct peculiar to Eastern Europeans who were born and raised in a region of forests and swamps." (Quoting from the Forward.) A little bit of
untermensch thinking here??
One can imagine a U.S. commander saying the same about the Seminoles during the Seminole Wars, or a British commander saying the same about Francis Marion's partisans during the AWI, or a Massachusetts Bay colonist saying the same about the Wampanoag during New England's King Philip's War of the 1670s.?
Thanks for sharing!
B.?
On June 16, 2020 at 9:27 AM cscholti <cscholti@...> wrote:
Just came across this published by the US Army in 1951.
Chuck
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