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		<title>The U.S. Army has very little initiative on the lower levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 11:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dunlap shares this quotation from a captured German field order: The U.S. Army has very little initiative on the lower levels; gains and advances are almost never exploited immediately, and our forces may counter-attack with good effect in a majority of cases. The enemy (us) is very unimaginative, depends upon weight of equipment for advance [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>He has such a beautiful chance to bother other people</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/he-has-such-a-beautiful-chance-to-bother-other-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2019 11:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dunlap has no desire to be tagged as one of the ex-soldiers griping over grievances real or imagined: What complaints I make are based more against the system than against the men. When practically the entire young and able-bodied male population is slapped into uniform, the heels go along with the regular people. Many a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Which was worse, the European or Pacific theater?</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/06/which-was-worse-the-european-or-pacific-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 11:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Men were always asking Dunlap which was worse, the European or Pacific theater: I usually gave a diplomatic answer to the tune that the Germans were better soldiers than Japs but that the country in the Pacific was harder to fight and live in. Which was about the truth. No part of the war was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans readily accepted the no-quarter idea of the Japanese</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/americans-readily-accepted-the-no-quarter-idea-of-the-japanese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 11:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans readily accepted the no-quarter idea of the Japanese, Dunlap reminds us: No one ever defended a Jap, the only thing I remember a cavalryman saying in that vein was that we should not squawk about how the Japs treated prisoners, since nothing they did was as bad as the things we did to them. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy was just a word</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/democracy-was-just-a-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 11:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American soldiers didn&#8217;t fight for especially noble reasons, Dunlap reminds us: Most soldiers paid little attention to the “moral values” of the war, losing themselves in the anonymity of the uniform so far as political views were concerned. Democracy was just a word, and the enlisted man was either oversold on how noble we were [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Courage is strange</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/courage-is-strange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 11:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courage is strange, Dunlap reminds us: A guy can be brave one day and a coward the next, and no soldier ever blamed another man for being afraid. Fear itself cannot be cataloged. I knew one man who was afraid of heights — could not climb a ladder in a training camp tower — but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>There is nothing very boyish about a war soldier</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/there-is-nothing-very-boyish-about-a-war-soldier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 11:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dunlap didn&#8217;t like most of the civilians&#8217; names for soldiers: I do not like the use of that word “boy” in all places, either, for there is nothing very boyish about a war soldier regardless of his age. It used to gripe us to read blurbs about “our boys.” A soldier can call other soldiers [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Two battle stars later he was a sergeant</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/two-battle-stars-later-he-was-a-sergeant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2019 11:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our army some units were better than others, Dunlap says, and the reason was not always leadership or training: Morale meant a lot. I do not mean the condition of the men’s minds regarding the home front or the political aspects of victory, but the mental attitude of the unit concerning combat. If an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The first man to comprehend and use tanks for full effectiveness was a Scot</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-first-man-to-comprehend-and-use-tanks-for-full-effectiveness-was-a-scot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2019 11:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of our propagandists, Dunlap says, the Germans were the best tank engineers: We had better armor steel, and our turret mechanism on the later models was very good. The stabilizer was ahead of enemy equipment, but the tanks were heavy, high, noisy and did not last long. [...] You could hear a Sherman [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fooling the men is the first principle of life</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/fooling-the-men-is-the-first-principle-of-life/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/fooling-the-men-is-the-first-principle-of-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2019 11:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the army in the United States, Dunlap says, “fooling the men” is the first principle of life: The official stand is that all enlisted men are morons and must be treated at that level of intelligence, therefore all officers and a lot of non-coms will tell any soldier anything at all, regardless of truth. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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