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In the movie The Dirty Dozen, one of the aforementioned 12 is asked to impersonate a general and inspect a crack paratroop unit. He tells the paratrooper’s commanding officer, “Very pretty, Colonel, but can they fight?” The speech by US Defense Secretary James Mattis at last week’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore struck me much in […]
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