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WildBill
05-06-2011, 01:38 AM
God bless the SEALS and all our highly trained soldiers. However, I'm concerned that citizens and government officials will come to believe that wars are won with highly trained, for lack of a better word, super soldiers and/or super technology. During World War Two, there was a tendency in some circles to think we could somehow win the war through "airpower" without fielding large armies of old fashioned ground pounders.

"Small" wars may be won with "small" highly trained and highly specialized units, but isn't our ultimate national security and the security of the planet going to be dependent on large massed armies or at least the ability to mobilize those quickly enough to deal with the large massed armies that emerging nations who are hostile to America and the peace of the planet have or are in the process of creating.