Good point.
And, nobody has mentioned Troy Middleton who's almost universally accepted as the best US division commander in WWII. And he commanded the 45th Infantry (OKNG), which was a pure foot...
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Good point.
And, nobody has mentioned Troy Middleton who's almost universally accepted as the best US division commander in WWII. And he commanded the 45th Infantry (OKNG), which was a pure foot...
Another log thrown on the fire of civil war?
Apply what forces there? We've commited all we have and sending some to the south would require taking them from someplace else in Iraq, leaving the door open for al Queda or some other group to...
Which is just another way of saying Iranian influence.
In future, if we conduct similar operations in another country, we should just find the local equivalent of al Sadr, put him on the payroll...
It's my understanding that the effectiveness of the bombing campaign over Germany had more to do with target selection than effort. When we shifted our priorities to ball bearings and fuel...
I would disagree with that statement. Ulitmately, the decision is political and has nothing to do with strategy. And the Marines have a lot of friends in Congress, plus the best PR in the business....
I don't trust al Sadr enough to believe anything he says. He has an ulterior motive.
My guess is it's to lie low, giving the American's a chance to claim "progress" and begin withdrawing. After...
The only reason defense spending must be reduced is because we're not willing to prioritize defense at the expense of other things. It's just another example of the old "guns and butter" spending...
I agree with that statement. And not only the personnel system, but the education and training tracks too. The military of the future can't afford to continue the parochialism inherent in MOS...
I'm not sure you can lose what you never had. Russian paranoia hasn't changed, and neither has American hubris. That's a dangerous mix and one which almost pre-ordains conflict and disagreement.
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You're right, but just changing the structure without changing the military culture would only result in "old" officers leading the "new" military. Not exactly an idea which offers comfort, is it?
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The problem is that IF we decided right now to reinstate the draft and greatly expand our pool of ground troops, it would be 2 or 3 YEARS before they could be deployed. That's not soon enough to...
When I first heard of the FCS several years ago, my first thoughts were of Ike's warning about the military/industrial complex. Later, when I learned a little more about it, I came to the conclusion...
If he's so busy interfacing and communicating, when will he find the time to shoot back? Can we say, "sensory overload?"
W.T. Sherman. He understood that war is unrefined brutality and he set out to make Georgia howl, which he did. His objective was to make war so unpalatable to them that they wouldn't resort to it...
The military's role is to advise the political leadership HONESTLY, and that's the key word.
If the civilians reject their advice and take the nation to war anyhow, what else is there for good...
Isn't that an example of Congressional micro-managing of DOD? It seems to me that if the services need to be transformed (which they do, but not along Rumsfeld's lines) it ought to come from the...
Oh, I won't deny that adopting such a strategy now would generate some substantial opposition. Of course, it wouldn't have on Sept. 12, 2001, but why we've frittered that support away is meat for...
LOL Yes, I suppose we could regress to the 10th century, but I wouldn't recommend it. But, then again, that seems to be where our adversaries are! ;)
Seriously, the cost of doing it that way...
Oh, I'm not suggesting that air power alone can win any war, unless we're willing to drop enough nukes on a country to completely eliminate it as a functioning society (which may ulitimately be...
We may not be doing that now, but we have in the past. There wasn't much military justification for unleashing our fire-bomb raids on Japan (unlike Germany where we attempted "pin-point" bombing of...