I’m off to the Far East (HK, Vietnam, Cambodia) for few weeks, so no more blogging until early April. It is sad, I know. For my final post, I will share a teaching from ‘We Were Soldiers’, a Mel Gibson Vietnam war movie.
Before Lt.Colonel Hal Moore (Gibson) leads his troops off to war, he is shown making notes on the earlier mistakes of the French. I paused the DVD at this point and scribbled them down.
FRENCH IN INDOCHINA
- Did not know the terrain
- Poor intelligence
- Underestimated the enemy
- Overconfident
- Did not fight on home ground
= MASSACRE
2 responses so far ↓
eyal // 12 March, 2008 at 6:04 pm
No Thailand? If you get a chance drop by.. Enjoy your holiday.
Caravaggio // 13 March, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Cheers eyal. Love to see Thailand one day, but with money and time quite tight on this trip, it’s going to have be another time.
: )
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