Time to review the military mindset?

[CloseDanger]

The limits of present line staff organization require changes be made.
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I observed narrow skill sets in training. There was cross training and the old saying that every Soldier is an InfantryMan. The system is bureaucratic and I felt like I was beating my head against a machine wall every day I was in there.
Different operations require more than a MOS skill set. Some require extremely salty veterans who have been on the ground. THAT is how you start - and by that meaning the NCO's. We still need our Officers schooled on the current warfare at hand. Need an agile and handy Operations Cell to get bullets down range by combining logistics in each OC. You rate by operation. College is online and it helps, yet I want the guys who went from unit to unit chasing deployments over dead beats sitting around in Mead breaking up our well organized teams all the time.

Everything is Logistic intensive, and it pays to get intelligence that way too.
Probably could do a manpower survey for these areas.

You are not supposed to be making units by type. You should start with experience, and allow the specialists in these units continue to stir the drink with unassailable knowledge of mission. It means you form the units around the Men. Capability is the training.

It's really nice to be in an Airborne and Air Assault unit with Rappelling gear and 463L pallets and nets. That kind of logistics ability alone is a quality feeling. A fully TOE Company of MP's used to pack more ordinance than an Infantry Battalion. The technical, tactical skill set they brought to the professional table was redoubled by teaching those real skills on to the Troopies. It's what I call a Legacy Unit - skills and trade by deployment - that reckons their skill sets.

Was not Rummy's job to make this a spear instead of heavy handed divisions? That means meshing capability and firepower dedicated to small teams - and pull some of those assets back from Special Forces as well. The guys in the dirt could use them.

[Bob's World]

All we really need is to come to the simple realization that Militaries do not solve conditions of insurgency, they merely suppress insurgent organizations that emerge as a result of those conditions.

Inter-agency efforts designed to help the military in this suppression effort are little better than the military acting alone, unless they are directed at addressing the conditions of insurgency rather than the insurgent himself.

Suppression used to be "good enough." I just don't think in today's compressed world it is any more. We don't need new organizations, we simply need to realize that governments can no longer simply sick their enforcement capacity against their populace, they must actually address the reasons their populace is acting out.