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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/Voices/2017/09/04/Is-the-US-military-ready-for-war/ [login to see] 708/
"After 16 years of waging a different form of warfare, we need to ensure our military is prepared for the next one and one that may be far more taxing. These naval mishaps may not be symptoms or precursors of larger failings. But we cannot take that chance."
While the article uses the naval mishaps as a base for it's subject, it focuses on the lack of preparedness training throughout the branches. I think it is a subtle dig at the other required training that "outside-of-military" forces have made the military conduct that takes away from preparedness training - which SecDef is wanting to get away from so that SMs can get back to preparedness training.
"After 16 years of waging a different form of warfare, we need to ensure our military is prepared for the next one and one that may be far more taxing. These naval mishaps may not be symptoms or precursors of larger failings. But we cannot take that chance."
While the article uses the naval mishaps as a base for it's subject, it focuses on the lack of preparedness training throughout the branches. I think it is a subtle dig at the other required training that "outside-of-military" forces have made the military conduct that takes away from preparedness training - which SecDef is wanting to get away from so that SMs can get back to preparedness training.
Is the U.S. military ready for war?
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The problem is, what kind of war should we be prepared to wage? Some high tech version of WWII? Global terrorism? Religious crusades/jihads? A combination of all or some? How many fronts? You can't prepare unless you know what you're preparing for, can you? The next war is likely to be like a pop quiz or even a final exam, without the benefit of ever attending a class...
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CPT Jack Durish agreed, sir. I think what the article was trying (but perhaps flailing all over) to suggest is that we've been focusing so much on counter-insurgency style warfare, that we have forgotten how to wage large-scale maneuver warfare? Is that kind of what you were seeing in it? Not really something we had to worry about until Russia & China decided to start ramping up again.
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CPT Jack Durish
SSgt (Join to see) - As I understand, we haven't had any large unit exercises in years. I have often asked why we don't commit our reserves to those types of warfare while our regular forces try and learn how to fight asymmetrical wars effectively.
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CPT Jack Durish - I think they are trying to gear up to some now. But this is only as a reactionary exercise. I agree. It would be ideal to keep the knowledge fresh w/ some aspect of the military.
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SSgt Christopher Mortell
My answer was going to be similar. What kind of war? The biggest challenge as I see it right now is maintaining both traditional and non-traditional, multi-front wars. Continuing the fight against ISIS and the Taliban while engaging in a land war on the Korean Penninsula and holding Russia in check in Eastern Europe all at the same time would be challenging.
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We will always need to adjust in the next war. We might need better ships, planes, weapons, and vehicles. Sometimes our doctrine have great failings. The Army Airforce in WWII claimed the bombers could defend themselves on strategic bombings. It lost 10,000 bombers and 80,000 personnel in WWII.
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