Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
Not sure who thought up the idea about joint patrols in the first place. Its a really dumb idea other than for - low risk of contact - presence patrols as the last thing you want is to get into a contact with the enemy with these ANA clowns - with different training and approach to warfare - as a wild card in your midst.
As your post reflects, not everybody is cut out for being outside the wire/away from the big px for statistically significant portions of their lives.

Big FOB's, small minded TCN policies, lack of language & culture skills, fortress embassies, all lead to a certain constrained viewpoint which leads to where our self-selected/self-imposed azimuth has taken us.

No easy cookie-cutter fixes are available to us that I am aware of, just lots of hard work ahead over the next few decades.