David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

[rich]

Covered in Richard Overys The Bimber War as well. An eye opening
reassessment of the Battle of Britain.

Re: drones. They are used cause they work. Whatever your moral view, it has
gotten rid of slugs like al awlaki. Too bad the Paris attackers weren't
there with him. In places like Yemen, almost a necessity. That said it
doesn't lessen the ambiguities politically and otherwise in their use and
effect. A never ending roulette of drone strike and terrorism...

rich

On Friday, January 9, 2015, Laura <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> The survivors felt invincible and also emotionally and morally galvanized
> to defeat the bombers. Note to the current drone controllers!
>
> Laura
>
>
> David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> http://www.rehanu.com/books_all/pdf/davidandgoliath.pdf
> via
> http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
>
> In "David and Goliath," Malcolm Gladwell tells a story about the bombing
> of London in WWII. What the Nazis expected (and British authorities, too)
> was that panic would sweep London, demoralizing the citizens. Unexpectedly,
> the opposite happened. Because, as Canadian psychiatrist J. T. MacCurdy
> deduced, the dead don't panic and those nearly killed are few; and the far
> more numerous, those who survived multiple attacks unscathed, felt
> invincible.
>
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