The Other Greg seems to have taken the events of this novel very, very seriously indeed. As best as I can determine amongst the blizzard of verbiage, this novels seems to have been one of the fonts of inspiration which informed his [acknowledged freely by his own self as totally without relevant expertise] advice to the USMC.
 
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Richard Aiken

Richard, you are yet again wrong, and putting words into my mouth.
ToM was in now way an inspiration for my research intended for use by the USMC. Not at any time.

Greg

On 25 June 2015 at 10:25, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:18 PM, John Groth <aurictech@cox.net> wrote:
As an aside, I've seen Mr. Chalik refer several times to "ToM."

Tom = Tactics of Mistake, one of the Dorsai novels.

The Other Greg seems to have taken the events of this novel very, very seriously indeed. As best as I can determine amongst the blizzard of verbiage, this novels seems to have been one of the fonts of inspiration which informed his [acknowledged freely by his own self as totally without relevant expertise] advice to the USMC.
 
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Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein
"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby
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