[Dragaera] Sethra Lavode's Words on War

[Howard Brazee]

On 2/11/2008 Ken Koester wrote:
>  In general. . . no.  The defender can do whatever he likes, but the
>  attacker determines where the fighting is going to be.  The Japanese
>  determined that fighting would start at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines
>  &
>  a host of other places, some not defended at all (in effect). 
>  Defender
>  preparations merely determined how many attackers would be involved &
>  to
>  some extent the timing of the attacks.  At the same time, other
>  places
>  were not attacked, even though defended.  In the German invasion of
>  Poland in '39, the attackers determined there would be no fighting on
>  the Vistula by choosing not to attack there, even though there were
>  defenders.  And Barbarossa, Soviet preparations didn't change the
>  general German axis of attack whatsoever:  the Soviets could have
>  stuck
>  units wherever they choose & the Germans would probably still have
>  done the same things.

Not to mention the Maginot line's impenetrable defense of the Germans...