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Love and war are both highways? That you can ride all night long?

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AC/DC had a completely accurate war song title then.

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"Git thar fastest with the mostest"

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What, in your opinion, doomed the Russian highway advance to Kyiv in the first week or so of the war? Were they too slow? Traffic jam?

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Combination of the two clearly

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They stopped for a picnic

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was this ghostwritten by heinz guderian?

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You know what really bothers me about the Russian federation. They have this f****** insane idea that they have the right to span from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Like who the f*** do they think they are

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Damn right. That's America's job.

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"how else would you describe Napoleon’s Grande Armée if not going straight down a road right at Moscow? " Exactly! Go straight at them!

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if you simplify the Battle of Ulm enough, you can just say that Napoleon won it by telling his troops to march faster.

"I have destroyed the Austrian army by simply marching" and so on.

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Truth. BH Lidell Hart is full of shit.

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Your theory isn't unfortunately new. This theory has been around since standing armies were a thing and got upgraded in the US Civil War and was upgraded again in World War II. Point being is the military's opinion to maintain momentum.

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