Posted on Jun 5, 2016
Can "Limited War" be an effective strategy in defeating a nation's enemies?
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No, we have lost, Korea, Vietnam.Sololia, Iraq and Afganistan with Limited war. We need to let the military loose and let them Kill or capture all the enemy and take the funds from the captured Army to pay for it Kill and keep killing till there are no more swearing to kill us. Our pantywaste politicians will keep interfearing until we have no country left.
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1SG Harold Piet
LtCol Dennis Ivan - and North Korea is still a country and the war is at a standsyill. But the North is still a very large threat
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LtCol Dennis Ivan
1SG Harold Piet - Capturing NK was McA's objective. The mission was restoration of the RoK.
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LTC Paul Labrador
LtCol Dennis Ivan - Concur. Seeing as how ROK is still an independent country and a leading world economic power, I'd say Korea was a win. It was never the US/UN intent in the Korean War to reunify the peninsula through a force of arms.
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Limited War is an attempt to fight war on the cheap. As we have seen in Afghanistan and Iraq, it just prolongs a war and ends up making it more expensive and does nothing to successfully end the war.
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Limited war is just a boondoggle to make more money for the arms suppliers. If you have a problem that only military action can solve, use it fast, hard and unreservedly. Get the job done then get the hell out.
If the problem does not absolutely require military action, then don't use it at all. This fannying about, fighting, then giving the property back just costs money and lives. If you can't decide, then leave the weapon racked.
If the problem does not absolutely require military action, then don't use it at all. This fannying about, fighting, then giving the property back just costs money and lives. If you can't decide, then leave the weapon racked.
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It's popular to blame the arms industry but the truth is, they make out either way. The ones who push limited wars are the politicians who don't want to stand behind their decisions.
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CDR Kenneth Kaiser
LCDR (Join to see) - I agree with both of you. If we are not going to fight to win then why fight? I am tired of having folks committed to battle but not to win, having folks all excited about going in to get em and then pulling the rug out with protests, poor rules of engagement commanding from the rear (in DC) and not supporting the troops. We won WWII because we finished it. Now we just go in get our folks killed and then get yanked out with nothing changing.
A great general, Lucius Macedonicus, made a statement—at least it was attributed to him. He called it, or someone later called it, “Come with Me to Macedonia.” It is a great statement and one that has impressed me greatly, with its many hidden truths. He said:
Commanders should be counselled chiefly by persons of known talent, by those who have made the art of war their particular study, and whose knowledge is derived from experience, by those who are present at the scene of action, who see the enemy, who see the advantages that occasions offer, and who, like people embarked in the same ship, are sharers of the danger.
If, therefore, anyone thinks himself qualified to give advice respecting the war which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his assistance to the state, but let him come with me into Macedonia.
He shall be furnished with a ship, a tent; even his travelling charges will be defrayed, but if he thinks this too much trouble, and prefers the repose of a city life to the toils of war, let him not on land assume the office of a pilot. The city in itself furnishes abundance of topics for conversation; let it confine its passion for talking to its own precincts and rest assured that we shall pay no attention to any counsel but such as shall be framed within our camp. [General Lucius Aemilius Paulus, surnamed Macedonicus, Roman general and patrician, c. 229-160 B.C.]
A great general, Lucius Macedonicus, made a statement—at least it was attributed to him. He called it, or someone later called it, “Come with Me to Macedonia.” It is a great statement and one that has impressed me greatly, with its many hidden truths. He said:
Commanders should be counselled chiefly by persons of known talent, by those who have made the art of war their particular study, and whose knowledge is derived from experience, by those who are present at the scene of action, who see the enemy, who see the advantages that occasions offer, and who, like people embarked in the same ship, are sharers of the danger.
If, therefore, anyone thinks himself qualified to give advice respecting the war which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his assistance to the state, but let him come with me into Macedonia.
He shall be furnished with a ship, a tent; even his travelling charges will be defrayed, but if he thinks this too much trouble, and prefers the repose of a city life to the toils of war, let him not on land assume the office of a pilot. The city in itself furnishes abundance of topics for conversation; let it confine its passion for talking to its own precincts and rest assured that we shall pay no attention to any counsel but such as shall be framed within our camp. [General Lucius Aemilius Paulus, surnamed Macedonicus, Roman general and patrician, c. 229-160 B.C.]
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CPT Pedro Meza
LCDR (Join to see) - Politicians that do not serve in military service and have no children serving. Solution draft their sons and daughters.
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