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BetweenAtlanticCoasts's avatar

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

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wubbles's avatar

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

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Benjamin Eskilstark's avatar

"Git thar fastest with the mostest"

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Adam's avatar

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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James's avatar

Combination of the two clearly

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Pablo's avatar

They stopped for a picnic

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John's avatar

was this ghostwritten by heinz guderian?

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Trystan's avatar

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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James's avatar

Damn right. That's America's job.

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JG's avatar

"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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Ethan (AllThePresidentsMen)'s avatar

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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C3.Command.Control.Coffee's avatar

Truth. BH Lidell Hart is full of shit.

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David Mesh's avatar

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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