Quote Originally Posted by socal1200r View Post
I think it's a BIG mistake to have it as a national policy / strategy / doctrine / whatever you want to call it, to have our general purpose forces as proficient in unconventional (irregular) warfare as they are in conventional warfare. That's what the SOF folks are for. The focus areas of these two types of warfare are entirely different, requiring different methods to organize, train, and equip (OTE). One is basically focused on defeating a known adversary thru attrition, the other by securing the population and winning their hearts and minds. It doesn't take a Rhodes Scholar to figure out that the OTE requirements are entirely different for these two mission sets.

Very well said and we used to know that and..... then we fell off a cliff or something?