Columnist Paul Greenberg writes of the Battle of the Bulge, here which began 60 years ago this week. As much as things change, how much they stay the same! War of any kind is pretty messy, and not much of anything goes exactly as planned. It is the ability of the 'boots on the ground' to slog it out, and an army's ability to adapt to new situations, even minute by minute, that insure success. It is certainly not armchair quaterbacking from thousands of miles away that gets anything done, no matter how superior we may feel as we pontificate strategy in the comfort of the homes our armed forces are protecting. Back then, we withstood 500 casualties a day! How easy it is to forget how much better things are in this case...
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