What do you qualify as an "ill concieved strike"? The French bombing (you'd
be right in that case) or the US retaliation?


The US retaliatory strike was ill concieved, poorly executed and didn't meet
the intent it was designed to have. But hey, it was 1983 and the US Department
of Defense was still trying to drag itself out of the "hollow force" put in
place by Carter (and actually begun under Ford).


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"