Posts made by Cromwell_Dude

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Does this count…the quote at the end of “Hamburger Hill”

If you are able,
save for them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O’Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

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Thought some of you would enjoy this funny post.   You must understand Economic Theory to get the humor.   I am a defender of Austrian Economics.   My friend, who wrote the email to me, is a defender of Keynesian Economics.   I play the Axis and he plays the Allies.   Here’s his email to me…

I have stumbled upon a great strategy for the USA that I think is a guaranteed winner.  The one problem is that the Rules do not explicitly cover the strategy, however the strategy is based in historical fact.

It is such a powerful strategy, I have not figured out any method by which the Axis will be able to stop it. It may take several turns for the US to reap the fruits of this strategy, but the outcome is never in doubt.

It is not a military strategy, it is more political. Or to be more precise, fiscal.  Throughout history, the US has always run deficits during times of war. WW2 was not an exception.

Accordingly, at the beginning of USA1, instead of just collecting 42IPCs, the USA will now collect 84 IPCs, or any number it wishes, under this Keynesian model.  Those additional IPCs can be put to great use building battleships and AC at will.  Imagine the look on the face of the Axis player when the US builds a navy with 4 battleships, 3AC, 5 destroyers, 10 subs, and 20 transports, on EACH coast on move 1!  The war is not in doubt now.

Now you may ask, well why can’t the Germans or Japanese adopt the same strategy? The answer is that they don’t have the political structure to do so.  The Germans and Japanese have alway been austere peoples.  Credit and commercialism is not in their blood.  Even though it may mean great military success, the Germans and Japanese will not adopt a reckless fiscal policy, simply because of their principals.  They would rather lose the war than be called Keynesian.

I think this is the ultimate strategy.