Topic: Greetings

Ollie Garchy · February 19th, 2006

Hello all,

I stumbled onto this site the other day and found quite a few good entries and some very intelligent viewpoints. I could not resist joining in on some of the discussions.

Ollie Garchy

Missileer · February 19th, 2006

Welcome Ollie Garchy. You're right about reading some of the posts and being unable to resist joining in. We're like the old potato chip advertisement, "you can't eat just one."

Fox · February 19th, 2006

Welcome to the Forums, Ollie Garchy.

tomtom22 · February 19th, 2006

Welcome aboard, Ollie Garchy.

Chief Bones · February 20th, 2006

Welcome aboard.
Be careful - chips can be fattening.........

The Cooler King · February 20th, 2006

Welcome to the forums Ollie. Who's that fellow in your avatar? Wehrmacht general?

Redleg · February 20th, 2006

Welcome to the forums.

Ollie Garchy · February 20th, 2006

The picture is of Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke -- the man who used the German rail net to defeat the Danes, the Austrians and the French in the era of Bismark. Moltke, a product of the Prussian military reform movement, in my opinion represents one of the first active military intellectuals who transformed warfare into a real science. A type of soldier-intellectual.

From what I have seen of this forum, the Wehrmacht receives far too much attention. Officers such as Manstein or Guderian stood on the shoulders of giants. I could not find a good picture of the mightiest giant. Scharnhorst more so than Moltke or even Clausewitz represented the first real military thinker and revolutionized his field in the manner of a Newton. The issue for Scharnhorst was how to duplicate the skills of Napoleon or Friedrich II using a staff structure that devoted itself to the study of war using historical methodology. Clausewitz refined the material into a massive book. Moltke employed these ideas to great success. Cool stuff, indeed. In any case, Wehrmacht generals used experience to adapt operational tactics. This process represented over a century of hard thinking on the subject.

Who is more important? The man who builds a better wheel or the man who invents it?

Ollie Garchy

Navy Boy · February 20th, 2006

Welcome to the military forums Ollie Garchy.

sandy · February 21st, 2006

Welcome to the military forums Ollie Garchy.

February 19th, 2006	Post 1
Ollie Garchy Centurion	Post; Greetings Hello all, I stumbled onto this site the other day and found quite a few good entries and some very intelligent viewpoints. I could not resist joining in on some of the discussions. Ollie Garchy

February 19th, 2006	Post 2
Missileer Nuclear Duck Hunter Gear	Welcome Ollie Garchy. You're right about reading some of the posts and being unable to resist joining in. We're like the old potato chip advertisement, "you can't eat just one." __________________ “War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” —John Stuart Mill

February 19th, 2006	Post 3
Fox Can you hear me now? Gear	Welcome to the Forums, Ollie Garchy. __________________ Why should I have to "Press 1 for English?" --Every American

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tomtom22 Chief Engineer Gear	Post; Welcome! Welcome aboard, Ollie Garchy. __________________ "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations

February 20th, 2006	Post 5
Chief Bones Forums Grumpy Old Man Gear	Welcome aboard. Be careful - chips can be fattening......... __________________ Fair winds and following seas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < and long may your big jib draw. *-W.R.B. (Chief Bones) FCC(SW) USN(RET)-*

February 20th, 2006	Post 6
The Cooler King Godfather Gear	Welcome to the forums Ollie. Who's that fellow in your avatar? Wehrmacht general?

February 20th, 2006	Post 7
Redleg The fire is everything... Gear	Welcome to the forums.

February 20th, 2006	Post 8
Ollie Garchy Centurion	Post; Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke The picture is of Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke -- the man who used the German rail net to defeat the Danes, the Austrians and the French in the era of Bismark. Moltke, a product of the Prussian military reform movement, in my opinion represents one of the first active military intellectuals who transformed warfare into a real science. A type of soldier-intellectual. From what I have seen of this forum, the Wehrmacht receives far too much attention. Officers such as Manstein or Guderian stood on the shoulders of giants. I could not find a good picture of the mightiest giant. Scharnhorst more so than Moltke or even Clausewitz represented the first real military thinker and revolutionized his field in the manner of a Newton. The issue for Scharnhorst was how to duplicate the skills of Napoleon or Friedrich II using a staff structure that devoted itself to the study of war using historical methodology. Clausewitz refined the material into a massive book. Moltke employed these ideas to great success. Cool stuff, indeed. In any case, Wehrmacht generals used experience to adapt operational tactics. This process represented over a century of hard thinking on the subject. Who is more important? The man who builds a better wheel or the man who invents it? Ollie Garchy

February 20th, 2006	Post 9
Navy Boy I LOVE THE ARMY!!!!!! Gear	Welcome to the military forums Ollie Garchy. __________________ This is Vice Admiral J. Kevin Moran Semper Fortis

February 21st, 2006	Post 10
sandy Primus Pilus Gear	Welcome to the military forums Ollie Garchy.

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