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- From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
- Subject: Re: What is sport? (was: A-word)
- References: <Jan14.015014.68382@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1993Jan15.181102.12505@tc.fluke.COM> <24764@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
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- Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 03:26:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.032623.28891@nas.nasa.gov>
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- >>Hemmingway defined sport as an activity that could kill you. Wayne
- >>Trzyna defines sport as an activity that is very physical. How do
-
- In article <24764@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> tucker@shiva.UUCP (George Tucker)
- writes:
- >How about war?
- Long interesting simile comparing sport and war.
-
- Hi George,
- Which Division of HAC is it you work for?
- You know, you pick up a hammer, and everything, all of a sudden starts to
- look like a nail. It's something I've noticed about the defense
- contractors starting to appear on the net (nothing personal, but
- interesting, their political conservatism, that is).
- Again this gets us back to the film Hearts and Minds with the American
- football plays interspersed with scenes of military officers.
-
- Another person asked me about military mountaineering. My nose is no
- cleaner than George's, whereas I might be more liberal, I have on occasion
- consulted to the DoD: the 7th Infantry Divison (Light), the USMC, and
- one agency which is best not discussed. Operational aspects are not
- for public discussion, you can write the Pentagon and get "interesting
- things." Basically, military mountaineering can be broken into three
- topic areas:
-
- 1) Historical military mountaineering (pre-WW-II)
- Ancient Greece to WW I
- 2) WW-II: ski and mountain troops, Finland, USSR, US 10th Mtn. Div.
- Italy and Alaska campaigns (mistakes), Norway (irregulars),
- England, Italy, Japan and German (Nazi) mountain troops.
- The Swiss and Austrians.
- 3) Post-WWII: Korea (not), and the Defense of Europe (role in
- Air-Land Battle doctrine), Afganistan, Soviet and Chinese
- mountain force, etc.
-
- The latter isn't all history (except Korea where we didn't send mountain
- troops). A lot of this is theoretical (from the American perspective).
- And a lot of it bears no resemblence WWII movies (as Iraq could show you).
-
- P.S. Rob Sharpe, if you are reading this, I am at LLNL tomorrow.
-
- --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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- A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
-