Re: Technical and Spiritual Development

From: OM (om_at_our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:58:52 -0600

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:11:41 -0800, p-stickney@Mineshaft.local (Peter
Stickney) wrote:

>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.

...Which, in turn, demonstrated the one area of military prowess that
any native army of Mexico has possessed since the fall of the Aztecs:
hit-and-run guerilla tactics using small bands of mounted raiding
parties. How Moltke failed to take note of this - especially when the
facts were trumped upon by certain elements of the American "yellow
journalist" state that were critical of Army failures to shut down
Villa's raiding successes - still remains puzzling to this day. He
would have been better off trying to con Canada into attacking the US
from the north :-)

                                OM 

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