Posted on Jun 30, 2015
Why do we fight these wars with one hand behind our backs?
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Because the nation has gone PC, and the Parties are looking for reasons to bring their opponents down with harsh criticisms over any unfortunate incidents. And the media gives critics a megaphone without looking into the truth in the incidents.
Kind of the way the police are under attack today. When it happens to the military we lose wars instead of just having riots that destroy our own property.
Kind of the way the police are under attack today. When it happens to the military we lose wars instead of just having riots that destroy our own property.
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Capt Seid Waddell
LCDR Rabbi Jaron Matlow, Korea and Viet Nam were both wars in which we tied our soldiers hands with stifling ROE. PC is simply that stupidity on steroids, IMHO
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Stifling ROE is incompetent leadership; that's very different than PC, but nonetheless, it's still been a huge problem for our country...
Capt Seid Waddell
LCDR Rabbi Jaron Matlow, sir, leadership based upon PC considerations is incompetence by definition, IMHO. However, I take your point; the incompetence in Korea and Viet Nam did precede the PC movement. I still think that the thought processes that gave us both are related in their similar disconnect with reality.
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Perhaps. I don't know enough about the leadership in the earlier wars, because I was born in 1959... It is baffling that our so-called leaders are eager to get us into wars, but don't arm and enable us to fight them... nor to pay for the after costs ala VA...
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PO2 Steven Erickson
Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz and von Moltke would be PROUD, TSgt Joshua Copeland !!!!
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TSgt Joshua Copeland
PO2 Steven Erickson, some standard (including those you listed) reading on military strategy as well as paying a bit of attention is PME (particular the Senior Enlisted Joint PME) make it pretty easy to analysis.
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LTC Bink Romanick
What exactly is total war against an insurgency? The concept of war has changed, we have cyber war, hybrid war, asymmetric war... There is no total war unless you go nuke.
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TSgt Joshua Copeland
The best examples of "total" war are Shreman and WWII bombing (both sides). To bring total war to an insurgency, as mentioned earlier, would violate our sensibilities of minimizing civilian causalities and collateral damage simply because they aren't directly linked to the insurgency.
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SrA Edward Vong
Capt Seid Waddell
Yes, at this point there is not enough evidence to create a full claim.. I think until we see an actual change, we can sleep soundly.
Yes, at this point there is not enough evidence to create a full claim.. I think until we see an actual change, we can sleep soundly.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SrA Edward Vong, this is the thing that makes the president's focus on AGW misguided. The evidence points to a natural cause while the president is being distracted from the more pressing issues of the day to tilt at the windmills of his ideology.
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SrA Edward Vong
Capt Seid Waddell
I do believe there is evidence, however, not enough to start a full focus like he is doing. Truth be told, I do like the POTUS, I personally feel his intentions are good, but he's also somewhat all over the place.
I do believe there is evidence, however, not enough to start a full focus like he is doing. Truth be told, I do like the POTUS, I personally feel his intentions are good, but he's also somewhat all over the place.
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Capt Seid Waddell
SrA Edward Vong , I agree that he is sincere and has good intentions. I also believe he is seriously wrong in his beliefs.
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