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You don't get to pick your Wars. Politicians do. Can't speak for Gian or know what's best for the US Army, but I do know that proficiency in fighting is the key to success in Big Wars and Small Wars, because both are Wars.Originally Posted by slapout9
Maybe America only wants Big Wars...Is Gian the next Chief of Staff.....Is Wilf the next Sec Def?
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Totally off thread...
Slap,
I feel, and it has been posited elsewhere, that America has the capability to be prepared for war fought on virtually any level of intensity or effort. Where we trip ourselves up is our acquisitions process is heavily geared towards equipping the force for war as we want it to happen, vice trying to achieve a balance of capabilities that can effectively deal with a broad and fluid range of employment. We seem to strive to have the highest speed, lowest drag widget. That superiority comes at a very high cost, and to what end?
One cannot 100% predict the future and it seems that many in government naively believe our opponents will fight on our terms. Granted, there are those that argue that having the absolute top of the line weapon systems deters our enemies. I agree that is true for some, but it will not deter them all, and those who are willing to take us on will make every effort to determine ways to either match or mitigate the superiority of our weapons or create scenarios in which they are irrelevant or impractical due to their complexity or lethality (our self imposed aversion to non-combatant casualties will always be a weapon to be used against us by less scrupulous opponents).
The US primarily should be highly proficient at employing forces to combat a peer like enemy because nearly all those proficiencies are still relevant when you are at war with men in sandals with AKs and RPGs. It’s mostly about the judicious and appropriate application of those proficiencies for each scenario, scenarios which will vary even within the same AO.
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
Ahhhh Guys.....since this is the T-Shirt thread it was supposed to be humorous
Too true Slap. Just forgot myself for a second, and I should have responded in a way befitting your comment.Ahhhh Guys.....since this is the T-Shirt thread it was supposed to be humorous
...but me like Small Wars. Small Wars easy. Small Wars cheap and manageable if approached with a thimble full of common sense. Me no like Big Wars. Big Wars decisive. Big Wars no time for learning. Big Wars very serious. Me like Small Wars.
...and I might put that on a T-shirt just for me!
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
Slap, I know, I know...
I suffered a temporary serious attack...
So let's get back to threads.
We could really throw off the uninitiated if we avoid reference to SWJ and go with:
The Kitakidogo Social Club
“If you don’t know what it means, you just don’t know”
We might even need a snazzy logo/coat of arms like emblem to be embroidered on the breast of the inevitable polo shirt!
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
Agree, Big Wars are Big Problems that we don't need.
However a coat of arms on a polo-shirt ain't half badgot a picture?
I'm just the idea guy...
I leave the real work to others!
Using my infinite Power Point skills I think I could come up with something rather dignified.
"What is best in life?" "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women."
Crossed Masai lion spears and shields? Or Zulu shield, assegai, and knobkerrie?I suffered a temporary serious attack...
So let's get back to threads.
We could really throw off the uninitiated if we avoid reference to SWJ and go with:
The Kitakidogo Social Club
“If you don’t know what it means, you just don’t know”
We might even need a snazzy logo/coat of arms like emblem to be embroidered on the breast of the inevitable polo shirt!
or maybe Shaka?
I'm not sure that walking around in a King Shaka T-Shirt
....will always convey the message we intend in a sophisticated, politically correct, polite society
This would be lovely.
We could really throw off the uninitiated if we avoid reference to SWJ and go with:
The Kitakidogo Social Club
“If you don’t know what it means, you just don’t know”
We might even need a snazzy logo/coat of arms like emblem to be embroidered on the breast of the inevitable polo shirt!
Umar, I think you are on to something there.....can you expand?
Yes, totally. My little Gentile/Nagl graphic was meant to be funny.Ahhhh Guys.....since this is the T-Shirt thread it was supposed to be humorous
BTW, Hello Kitty kicks the crap out of Bun Bun
It's a Bad Idea to antagonize psychopathic rabbits.BTW, Hello Kitty kicks the crap out of Bun Bun
John Wolfsberger, Jr.
An unruffled person with some useful skills.
Yes...
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Is that a Warhammer 40K mech wearing a Hello Kitty dress? I wonder what the rest of his army looks like...
"The status quo is not sustainable. All of DoD needs to be placed in a large bag and thoroughly shaken. Bureaucracy and micromanagement kill."
-- Ken White
"With a plan this complex, nothing can go wrong." -- Schmedlap
"We are unlikely to usefully replicate the insights those unencumbered by a military staff college education might actually have." -- William F. Owen
Looks like a converted Space Marine Dreadnought to me.
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
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