Latter Day Sinner

I live in Wisconsin, USA. The US government excels at asymmetric warfare. I signed on the dotted line to be a US soldier and started working towards officer certification. Somewhere along the line I had a sergeant who was also an Airborne Ranger take me aside and tell me that if I wasn’t willing to cheat I didn’t really want to win. I mull that advice to this day. When I was a kid my dad taught me chess. I never got good at it. Perhaps it’s because it’s a fair fight and that’s just not how I think. We played other war games. My favorite was Africa Corp. The Germans start the game with a huge advantage and a mission to cross the map. The allied mission is to stop them. The best allied strategy is to bog down the Germans with little units that have a zone of control which forces the Germans to stop and fight each one. Most of the time I played the allies. I knew the Americans were coming if I could just delay the German advance until a massive reinforcement arrived. November 42 I think. The American troops made the game unwinnable for the Germans. It was a classic exercise in asymmetric warfare and good memories with my dad. I played by the rules but I also knew how to keep it from becoming a “fair” fight.