Re: Technical and Spiritual Development

From: Peter Stickney (p-stickney_at_Mineshaft.local)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:11:41 -0800

In article <n4bcv05deorh99otu1g82fs42qgu6ortpv@4ax.com>,
        OM <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org> writes:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:50:52 GMT, henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
> wrote:
>
>>In fairness, he did so largely in response to a German attempt to bring
>>Mexico into an alliance against the US -- to open an American Front.
>
> ...Which essentially took the form of Pancho Villa :-)

Not quite true, but pretty close.
The Germans were incredibly contemptuous of USAnian military prowess,
to the point where their planning on dealing with the United States
was apparently framed by Brad Guth and detailed by Timothy Leary.
(The German War Plan for the United States in 1914 consisted of using a
protectd harbor in Nova Scotia as a bas of operations for the invasion
of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, which was to be conducted by one
division of Infantry. Teutonif Handwaving and bizarre confidence in
harebrined schemes wasn't just a Nazi trait.)

If you went by the "Book Numbers" for Order of Battle, quality of
weapns, etc, Mexico was seen as a much more powerful military force.
That Mexican society itself was hopelessly fractured, and teh quality
of the line troopers was hopeless seems to have been missed by Moltke
the Younger (Head of the German Imperial General Staff, and despite
his father's genius, a fatuous dip)

Villa was, in hos own way, a quite serious factor - At one point, he
pretty much controlled Noerthern Mexico. Villa always felt that if
he'd had the support of American Interests, be they Government or
Commercial, he would have been able to take all of Mexico. He initial
did have a lot of American support. But His (and his troops) habit of
looting the very people he wanted to have support him wasn't shall we
say, the epitome of diplomacy. Nor for that matter, was raiding towns
in Arizona. 

-- 
Pete Stickney			
p-stickney@nospam.adelphia.net
Without data, all you have are opinions

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