Sunday, May 18, 2014

SNAFU & FUBAR


Over the course of three years or so I’ve read a little over twenty books on the Civil War and maybe about ten books on World War II.  One thing that has been cemented beyond the shadow of a doubt in all my readings of all the battles is that the side that wins is more often than not the side that messes things up the least.

In other words, the side that’s less incompetent than the other side.

SNAFU is SOP when it comes to warfare, and SOP is often FUBAR.

Just something that I, as an unwilling and unwitting student of pop culture, has never been truly aware of in my forty-plus years of life on this fallen, war-filled world.

Thank God for the good guys who are less incompetent than the bad guys.

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