Originally Posted by
MountainRaven
I think...words.
There's only one problem with your hypothetical situation, and his name was Robert McNamara. There's no way anything that you mentioned could ever happen while he was the Sec. Def. He was too much of a bean counter to let any of that happen. For example, he was responsible for the decision to not chrome line the bore and chamber on the early version of the M-16, just because he wanted to save $2 per gun. This was one of the major causes of the problems that the M-16 had early on in Vietnam.
Last edited by TexHill; 05-16-19 at 17:02.
A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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