Re: Slippage Again
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Author: mimus
Date: Aug 18, 2008 21:57
... ends up as is usually not the original war. I don't know about the term "slippage", but I completely agree with your two conclusions. Clausewitz uses "friction" to refer to what WWII GIs referred to as "SNAFU", eg yer troops arriving at one place and their munitions at another . . . . I think "slippage" works just as well if not better, even though its dam' near an antonym. -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or ...
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