Gen Robert Scales Thinks Our Infantry Isn’t Ready For The Next War

I recommend Michael English's "On Infantry" and Erwin Rommel's "Attacks" which were written by infantrymen not an artilleryman like MG Scales. Ernie Pyle lived with infantrymen and wrote about their experiences in WWII - I recommend "Brave Men." Although these books are older they are relevant.
Infantry should never be the center of a strategy. [that made sense in the ancient days up through our Civil War and was crushed in WWI] SGT (Join to see)
The US Army and USMC infantry will do what needs to be done without fanfare usually. Our soldiers are trained to think on their feet to adjust to each and every situation.
Warfare development is about innovation of weaponry and techniques and countermeasures to the oppositions.
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We have not won a war since 1945. WW2 was possibly that last time we as a nation were able to stand together. Politics as killed more war-fighters than any cause in modern warfare. Politicians have refused to take war to the enemy. North Korea, North Vietnam, and North West Pakistan. (Iraq is a whole other kind of screwed up and could write a book on how that one went to shit.) Since the Korean War when we did take land we gave it right back to the Banana Republic that we thought was going to support the mission, only to have them rape the country of all it's cash and resources leaving the locals to support the enemy because it had to be better than what America was doing to them.

While the infantry is the most important pawn on the battlefield it is still just a pawn. As a nation we have to sack up and commit to destroying the enemy and be ready to take and hold land for the long term. We have to engage and kill. Until we can do that, not only is our infantry not ready for the next war, neither is America. If we can't (or won't) then we need to keep our troops at home.

Just like in WWII, our grunts need to be unleashed. But not just the infantry, all of our warfighters are in peril because we are used as nation building, pinkies out, state department ambassadors with rules of engagement becoming the size of a phone book.