Sunday, April 23, 2023

Gladwell choke points

 Dear Friends:

Gladwell strikes again! 'choke points'

What are the choke points in the culture war? Prayer, liturgy...?

Gladwell's 'Bomber Mafia' gives rise to the above question.

Summary: The Bomber Mafia wanted to make the next war more humane. They wanted to avoid the million casualties at Some in WWI.
They thus developed the idea of 'choke points'.  What would cripple the enemy's ability to make war? They were helped in this by the Norden bombsight, which allowed pinpoint bombing. Norden was a Christian, explicitly says Gladwell.

Alas, cloud cover put the kabosh on the bombsight. The raid on Schweinfurt, the town with 5 ballbearing factories did not work, despite the courage of LeMay, who said that a non-evasive flight was needed. His pilots said it was suicide, so he piloted the lead bomber.

The same thing happened with Japan, and LeMay again devised how to do it. Low-level night bombing with napalm, which destroyed Japanese cities (wooden houses) by fire. It wasn't only the A-bombs that shortened the war, preventing a Russian invasion which would have resulted in North Japan and South Japan. See East Germany and West Germany.
But the idea of choke points is a good one?
What are they in 5th Generation Warfare of the mind?
Love  in King Jesus,
Chuck 'Thousand Year Prayer' Hartman 
PS: Biblically, 'non-destruction of fruit trees is more Norden than LeMay.
'

No comments:

Post a Comment