Thank you Jim. May I add that Heinz Guderian freely admitted the had in turn based his battlefield tactics on the writings of Basil Liddell-Hart, another military genius disregarded and dismissed in his own county.

May I also please refer you to my own column on Substack of last Friday that refers to Robert McNamara and his Eleven Lessons on War. Having been US Secretary of Defense from

1961 until 1968 he has a few highly pertinent things to say on the subject. I suspect that Pete Hegseth who is barely qualified to run a bath, let alone the Pentagon, is ignorant of McNamara, a man with two or maybe even three brains.