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surprised he and Stalin must have been when German Armor thrust itself into Russia in the
Summer of 1941. Guilio Douhet believed that the airplane had so revolutionized warfare
that battles between armies would no longer occur. Roger trinquier believed likewise that
battles between armies were things of the past. The American Army’s current seduction with
counterinsurgency war has pushed it toward an especially narrow view of present and future
conflict. What the American Army does not seem to understand is that history should inform,
not prescribe and direct.
