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| | Ocean Guy: Somewhere on A1A |
 | | Some reporter, with his ass on a barstool ashore, looking at the tanker war through his gin and tonic straw at the Sherlock Holmes Pub in the Gulf Hotel in Manama Bahrain, filed an exciting if embellished story. |
 | | The concept itself is merely an extension of the blitzkrieg notion that the enemy command structure, not his troop masses, are the true center of gravity on the battlefield. |
 | | During the campaign of 1940, Heinz Guderian's panzers bypassed many French formations, leaving them unfought, knowing that if their command structure were severed, the whole musclebound mass would fall to the ground headless. |
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