Do They Really Believe So?

[MikeF]

I think that people a lot closer to the fight have similar misconceptions. I don't know that the Undersecretary really has the experience or purview to know better. In one of my PME classes, we had a Navy intel officer who was talking tough about "going in and killing people" and how we need to be tougher in X capacity with regard to the War on Terror. Another student said, "That's easy for you to say because all you know about it is mouse clicks and powerpoint briefs." Things seem pretty nifty from JICPAC.

Damn, I should not have low crawled through the trenches and thrown the grenades...Then, I could be much better at PPT. Or maybe I just imagined that in a dream while I was typing up my PPT slides...Damn, I get confused these days....

I find some of the Navy/AF guys as humorous as the reaction to Michael Jackson's death, but then again I've never landed a jet on a carrier at night...So much for PME.

Maybe we should all consider to reconsider warfare in its simpliest form- not how we wished it to be....

v/r

Mike