03.10.2021, 13:20
Studiere gerade die Banana Wars, in welchen die USA bereits vor 100 Jahren sich in Counterinsurgency versucht haben, was schließlich im Small Wars Journal des USMC mündete.
Zitat:
It is typically American to believe that we can exert a suble alchemy by our presence among a people for a few years which will eradicate the teaching and training of hundreds of years, which will remold character according to our lines and which will educate races which have been kept in the grossest ignorance by the powers ruling over them. This is an hopeful theory, but it lacks any common sense.
Lt.Col. Henry C. Davis, 1921
Zitat:
It is typically American to believe that we can exert a suble alchemy by our presence among a people for a few years which will eradicate the teaching and training of hundreds of years, which will remold character according to our lines and which will educate races which have been kept in the grossest ignorance by the powers ruling over them. This is an hopeful theory, but it lacks any common sense.
Lt.Col. Henry C. Davis, 1921