Bridges in his divisional headquarters starting receiving messages from the front; just after 17:00 Lieutenant-Colonel George Braund on Walker's Ridge advised he was holding his position and "if reinforced could advance".
"If reinforced concrete was rendered into dust," he said later, "then it wasn't much of a mystery as to what would happen to people".
On January 22nd the committee recommended that it continue but only if reinforced by 1,000 extra troops from another NATO country as well as by more aircraft.
These experiments indicate that practice makes perfect only if reinforced; the result of unreinforced practice is extinction of the correct response and a proliferation of errors.
Partly to prevent this, perhaps, Pakistan is urging America to accept what it sincerely believes: that NATO's strategy in Afghanistan, even if reinforced by the 40,000 extra troops requested of Mr Obama, will fail.
The above anomalies (losing knowledge without forgetting, disagreement amongst equally well-informed ideal reasoners, rationally changing your mind without the acquisition of counter-evidence) would be more tolerable if reinforced by separate lines of reasoning.
The brain just wants some recognition that the change has been made so it if reinforced.
According to the report, Egypt and Syria's air forces, if reinforced with 16 air squadrons from other Arab countries would achieve numerical superiority.
These findings, if reinforced with further research, could suggest the need to reduce exposures to pregnant women below current limits.
