The Fifth Column

“We can beat anybody, on the battlefield,” one American general gloated publicly, during the summer of 2006, or so. By most accounts and measures, in all-out war, not likely too many informed souls would argue with that assertion. Yet, on the battlefield, or, not, beaten she must and will be. The means having been established in the previous discussion, the prevailing question only looms larger: How? Regardless of strength and heedless of might, on the battlefield and off, the creative and clever among U. S. enemies have been devising simple but highly effective and deadly means of exploiting holes and kinks in her armor. 9/11 being perhaps a prime example, the solution becomes quite simple, does it not? Recall again the Trojan Horse from Greek mythology. Fabled though it was tho ...