The Lord and Master of Space for Commerce knows how to write a freaking letter:

Sir,

Regarding yours of January 8th and drones killing Black Hats and etc.

His Grace is of course aware of the line of thought so ably expressed by Mr. T.R. Fehrenbach in ‘This Kind of War‘

Americans in 1950 rediscovered something that since Hiroshima they had forgotten: you may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life – but if you desire to defend it, protect it, and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman legions did, by putting your young men into the mud.

The object of warfare is to dominate a portion of the earth, with its peoples, for causes either just or unjust. It is not to destroy the land and people, unless you have gone wholly mad.

I remain worried that our Commander In Chief – whatever else his flaws and strengths are – may not grasp that war is more than just killing bad guys.

Your Ob’dt Servant

Wow. Although the Czar was born over eight centuries ago, and influenced a lot of military thinkers with lessons good and bad, the Czar confesses that he is not aware of Mr. Fehrenbach’s work until now. (By the way, for a great history on the Korean War and disturbingly prescient commentary about how Democrats screw up a war, check out The Korean War by Max Hastings who also warns of using air power to knock out an enemy but losing it all when the boots on the ground cannot catch up to fill the jets’ vacuum.) So it is no shock to learn someone else realizes that you can never fight a purely technological war. Heck, didn’t Star Trek, even with its embarrasingly fantastic Leftist philosophies, get this right once or twice? No, readers, please do not write in on that. Point is…and Mr. Dunbar has nailed it…is that you topple the enemy from the air, but you don’t beat him until you have put a boot on his throat.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.