High over the White Sea . I
ordered up a double JackD and two shells of Cralsberg and settled down to read.
The book was Hasting’s The Korean War. 1987 edn. POLICE
action me old china not a war!!!
So here I am this evening listening to Spingola and what
comes to mind. Well the shit I’ve read and the shit I’ve not read.
I stopped reading the Korean Police Action after two
chapters, not because I found it turgid, or the JD, but because I was puzzled. Turgid
books I do not revisit. Ooops forgot about Fighter Combat Tactics and
Maneuvering. R L Shaw. USNI 1985. There is my marker still, second
attempt, in p101 Fig 3-1 Guns-Only
Angles Fight: First Phase.
PhukkMe!!! As usual with a USofA corp book the shelf price
is snipped from the dust jacket by the UKplc importer but we can say with
confidence the USD price decimal transferred exactly to UKPsterling. Exchange
rates my arse.
Anyway talking of turgid there are indeed three pieces of
shite I could never attack again. I even fought through Jeter’s Farewell
Horizontal. Utter shite.
Econometric Models & Economic Forecasts, Pindyck &
Rubinfeld. McG H 3rd edn.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Shirer 1983 edn
The Roman World. Boardman, Griffin ,
Murray . TOHotCW
1989 edn.
All three shite.
However Hasting’s book made me ask a question that the other
lot did not. The other lot wanted to hypnotise me into a state of nothingness.
I asked myself how can I contextualise this stuff and make sense of it. It was
not my main occupation to do so, but there it was, part of the unfolding of the
shithouse herring doors. One little dot about to be connected of the unfolding
stench.
So twelve years to the month later I was once again high and
ordered up a triple JW and started again. Over the White
Sea .
And I got it.
WTF was X Corp up to and why did McC get booted?
An old quote I remember but cannot source is that the US
Army left WW2 as the top armed force on the planet. Entered the Korean Police
Action as a shit house and left it rebuilt exemplary. Entered Vietnam as a
great armed force and exited as a shit house. Got rebuilt in the 1980s and now
where is it? Is it a shit house.
Anyway.
X corp; what was that mission?
