newt gingrich, former house speaker, major enabler of liberophobia, and possible presidential hopeful, recently published never call retreat, the last novel in a civil-war trilogy. in it george armstrong custer dies heroically during the civil war, which, had it happened, would have been a good thing for this country, given the massacres he later carried out against amerindians before his karma caught up to him near the greasy grass creek/little bighorn river in 1876.
i hope newt doesn't intend his title as a policy recommendation. retreat is not headlong flight from an enemy. it is strategic withdrawal before superior force, placing obstacles in the path of pursuers, slowing and weakening them by booby traps, sniper fire, and ambushes.
retreat is perhaps the main strategy by which george washington won the revolutionary war.
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