GWOT VI: Decision
Feb. 8th, 2020 04:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewkittyTwo hundred odd survivors escaping Rodeo Gulch, with Captain Solon to call the fire and no hope without artillery support.
Four thousand refugees in greater danger, with a handful of California troops drafting refugees to fight and die. Likely the most efficient use of artillery, to save lives and break an army.
Or the original plan, which would save no lives today but make the war real for the people of Iowa in a way no mere battle could.
Put that way, it was obvious.
And I refused to be politically correct about it..
"Mortars, execute terror attacks to plan," I radioed.
Four thousand refugees in greater danger, with a handful of California troops drafting refugees to fight and die. Likely the most efficient use of artillery, to save lives and break an army.
Or the original plan, which would save no lives today but make the war real for the people of Iowa in a way no mere battle could.
Put that way, it was obvious.
And I refused to be politically correct about it..
"Mortars, execute terror attacks to plan," I radioed.
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Date: 2020-02-08 12:42 pm (UTC)