Search:

Armies represent the society from which they come... :(Given the current attitudes and culture, you're correct. However, there is a solution. Required is raising the standards for entry, officer...

Too many year in and watching the critter that is the US Army lead me to take strong exception. If something can be misused, it will be. Murphy rules, particularly in combat.

That is...

I think you just reinforced my point. We have a terminology (not totally a concept) introduced about 30 years ago and it has already permeated the Army and use of the concepts have filtered down by...

That could be construed as use of proper jargon delineates august Operational planners from the great unwashed...;)

It could also lead one to give great credence to this comment by WilF:""Your...

but yes on that last.

Resources IMO are used to provide assets. If a specific asset or item is required, you must have the resources or wherewithal to procure or produce the desired item.No question, thus my comment on...

for the Mulberries and the Caissons. Many Companies all over the UK were involved. Of course there was no Genie, there never is. It was an idea that followed the Dieppe debacle and no one is...

Mulberry harbors did not exist in January 1943 when the Allies agreed to invade western Europe, yet, by June 1944, they were available.

Contrary to your statement, a good strategy may call for...

That said, I agree wholeheartedly with your contentions on our very, very foolish last couple of decades or so -- though I'd go rather strongly for for 31 years rather than 20. :mad:

and I'll also agree with Wilf that a large percentage -- not 99 but a bunch -- of the broader military community is out to lunch on a lot of things.

That is primarily due to the fact that they...

Haven't we all. Likely will be again. :D

He understands it, he just doesn't agree that it's a valid premise and he is not alone in that. There are others about. We adopted it at the request...

of a drink... :DTerrible thing is I should've remembered Lynndie particularly well because my son's platoon was in the exterior security Company from the 82d that was at Abu Gharaib at the time -- he...

She had no strategic or operational impact and very little tactical impact -- unless you consider a failure of leadership and training leading to an unnecessary capture and the resulting dumb...

Heavy going... :D

I agreed there is an Operational Art so I guess that proves that I do not consider most of the military and history communities to be insane. My point is the rather more important issue that...

""...that its techniques and principles are often misapplied...We as an an Army have a tendency to use precepts and principles when they are not appropriate simply because they are taught, ergo they...

Hmm. That could mean that there is none... :wry:Seriously speaking, I agree that it exists. I also agree that not many can do it well -- or, perhaps, that its techniques and principles are often...

Except perhaps that last item and that's mostly an opinion so there will always be variances on that -- though I'm inclined to agree with the caveat that I believe the operational bit to be a...

I did that and it's on the Thread link I posted above. Also, what you say is not what was the intent. That intent was a tongue in cheek poke at pedantry and excessively serious attention to minor...

this may be what some would wish but fortunately it doesn't work that way in practice. I suggest that you're advocating, in a so-called professional force, that those with 15-20 years experience...

This thread is allied (LINK). :D

the plural. ;)

Varied strategies in support of a policy of containment. I agree. :D

Yep, sure was playing. Couldn't resist it, too great an opportunity to pass up. :DNo question and I agree. I even went briefly into the etymology of the word, pointing out our misuse of it... ;) ...

No misperception involved. I agree with you -- and what I said is not in conflict with that. On the contrary, what you said:was wrong on between two and three factors depending upon how one wishes...

the Instructors in the then Department of Tactics at that august institution used to tell the Students at the outset:

"What we are going to teach you will work will work against a near peer...