tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post8801503151067382796..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Asymmetric warfareUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-54943180283872556382008-04-04T13:34:00.000+02:002008-04-04T13:34:00.000+02:00Here's a link to Hugo Grotius' "De Jure Belli ac P...Here's a link to Hugo Grotius' "De Jure Belli ac Pacis" that I think you'll find interesting (Grotius was dutch, but this is translated from latin...).<BR/><BR/>http://www.constitution.org/gro/djbp.htm<BR/><BR/>American colonial and revolutionary era conflicts create a different cultural expectation regarding the virtue of said conflict, as we've never really entered a fight without this or that regional or sub-cultural faction dissenting. Here's a anecdote Germans will appreciate:<BR/><BR/>During WWII three German POWs escaped from a POW camp in the backwoods of western Virginia, and made their way up into the smokey mountains, as they knew if they made their way to a German speaking area they'd shake their pursuers. The Smoky Mountains are lightly populated and close enough to Bavarian hill country to prove easy for the (three) soldiers to navigate, and so after a day and a night on the move, they decided it was safe to find a place to rest. So when they stumbled across a log cabin next to a brook with a wrinkled old lady sitting on the porch, they settled down by the stream and ignored her. When she walked into her cabin and came out and killed them all with her 12 gauge they were very surprised....<BR/><BR/>Well, when the camp guards arrived to find a little old mountain grannie on her porch holding he shotgun and ooking proud as punch over shooting three POWs, they didn't know what do think. "Grannie", one of the guards said "why'd you go and shoot these here German boys? Dint you see by them uniforms they was prisoners of war?"<BR/><BR/>"Germans?!" the grannie replied, suddenly starting to weep in remorse. "God forgive me I didn't know they was German or I'd never of kilt 'em... I thought they was Yankees!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com