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Sword & Shield: Tactics, Period 3 - Wednesday
“Today we’ll have a bit of a debate,” Steve told the class once they were duly assembled, “on a subject your teachers happen to disagree on.”
Weren't you all simply thrilled to be present for it? Be more thrilled, kids!
Jaime wasn't in his armor today. No, today he wore Lannister crimson and gold. Because he held a certain fondness for the colors when faced with a Targaryen princess. "The subject is 'scorched earth'. A rather lovely word for warfare, I think. Strikingly accurate."
“And strikingly unnecessary, in most cases,” Steve said. “It doesn’t win you any friends or allies, and destroys infrastructure that you may need to use later. Granted, in some cases it’s the defenders doing the scorching: in the USSR, now Russia, during the second World War, the locals could pull back and burn their fields behind them for hundreds of miles, knowing as they did they had a lot more Russia to go and German supply lines could only stretch so far, especially with winter coming. But the consequences were dire even for them.”
"The Starks would be so proud of them," Jaime replied with a happy little sigh. "In that instance, I will concede that the method worked in the favour of the defenders rather than the assaulting army. Only a madman would try to fight the coming winter as well as the troops of his foes."
The Starks could have pulled back and held them all off at the neck. But that wasn't how things had worked for them and their dear friends of Frey.
"Where I am from there is a song called the Rains of Castamere. It is about a lesser house, Reyne, who were beholden to the house Lannister. When they rose up against us, believing us weak, they were extinguished from life. Each member killed, their holdings destroyed, their lands removed. Where I am from, this song has worked for a very long time as a deterrent on what happens when you face the full force of the Lannister might."
“It’s certainly one way to rule,” Steve agreed, “inspiring fear, but as I said, this is a matter where we disagree. I think it’s better to be respected than feared, and destroying everything rarely does that. And as I mentioned before, there’s the practical matter of having to pay if you want to make use of the land you’ve just won via destruction.” War was expensive enough already. “But as we come from very different backgrounds, we may have to agree to disagree.”
Jaime smiled at that. "We have a saying back home: As rich as a Lannister," he said with a wink. "Now, we would like to hear from the class. Where do you draw the lines in your tactics? Either as the retreating force or the advancing."
Weren't you all simply thrilled to be present for it? Be more thrilled, kids!
Jaime wasn't in his armor today. No, today he wore Lannister crimson and gold. Because he held a certain fondness for the colors when faced with a Targaryen princess. "The subject is 'scorched earth'. A rather lovely word for warfare, I think. Strikingly accurate."
“And strikingly unnecessary, in most cases,” Steve said. “It doesn’t win you any friends or allies, and destroys infrastructure that you may need to use later. Granted, in some cases it’s the defenders doing the scorching: in the USSR, now Russia, during the second World War, the locals could pull back and burn their fields behind them for hundreds of miles, knowing as they did they had a lot more Russia to go and German supply lines could only stretch so far, especially with winter coming. But the consequences were dire even for them.”
"The Starks would be so proud of them," Jaime replied with a happy little sigh. "In that instance, I will concede that the method worked in the favour of the defenders rather than the assaulting army. Only a madman would try to fight the coming winter as well as the troops of his foes."
The Starks could have pulled back and held them all off at the neck. But that wasn't how things had worked for them and their dear friends of Frey.
"Where I am from there is a song called the Rains of Castamere. It is about a lesser house, Reyne, who were beholden to the house Lannister. When they rose up against us, believing us weak, they were extinguished from life. Each member killed, their holdings destroyed, their lands removed. Where I am from, this song has worked for a very long time as a deterrent on what happens when you face the full force of the Lannister might."
“It’s certainly one way to rule,” Steve agreed, “inspiring fear, but as I said, this is a matter where we disagree. I think it’s better to be respected than feared, and destroying everything rarely does that. And as I mentioned before, there’s the practical matter of having to pay if you want to make use of the land you’ve just won via destruction.” War was expensive enough already. “But as we come from very different backgrounds, we may have to agree to disagree.”
Jaime smiled at that. "We have a saying back home: As rich as a Lannister," he said with a wink. "Now, we would like to hear from the class. Where do you draw the lines in your tactics? Either as the retreating force or the advancing."
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