Posted on Jul 23, 2017
The Missing Element in U.S. Military Modernization | Small Wars Journal
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"The high-tech modernization emphasis for U.S. ground forces is more problematic, mainly for the reason that the actual conflicts waged by the U.S. in the past 25 years could not have been won with more firepower. Instead, discrimination and precision in the use of force was more critical than firepower. The lethality of a weapon system cannot compensate when the local population is complicit in the placement of improvised explosive devices, for example. The current training regimen for U.S. Army Brigade Combat Teams emphasizes a return to combined arms maneuver warfare in order to prepare for and deter conflict with a near-peer or regional adversary such as Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea. To prepare for such conflicts is rational and necessary, but the unfortunate corollary to the return to conventional warfare tactics is the overconfident assessment that the U.S. Army is sufficiently proficient in counterterrorism and contingency operations. This assessment may be valid at the tactical level, but the rise of the Islamic State after the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, the ongoing stalemate in Afghanistan, and the proliferation of jihadist networks should demonstrate that the U.S. military effort was ultimately inconclusive, and more importantly, that the broader war is not over."
The Missing Element in U.S. Military Modernization | Small Wars Journal
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Posted 7 y ago
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Posted 7 y ago
Kind of my version of, when the magic works it's great, but on that day the magic don't work what will you do.
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SSG Edward Tilton
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I ran into that in the 60s with Vietnamese or Khmer troops. They never really understood indirect fire and never had enough ammunition to get good at it. Boresighting and direct fire was something they could do and canister rounds always went over well.
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Posted 7 y ago
This is really is the problem with the wars of today we and our enemies are fighting different wars from each other. We keep trying to beat them militarily which we already di but groups like ISIS and Am Qaeda they are trying to beat us ideologically and most of our leaders don't get that they keep pushing for more military offensives which have already been done. We need to start doing political and ideological warfare in partnership with our military offensives. I hate to say propaganda but we really need to start pushing more of that fight. These terrorist groups push heavily into their propaganda machine while our leaders hope that truth should speak for itself it does not we need to get our message across and market it to the people's of Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan even to the rest of the world it seems like the only method that has not been tried yet.
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Posted 7 y ago
The broader war appears to be ideology Sir. Mainly, Islam. Both Shia and Sunni. A round will not solve the issue while the Maddrassas and Mosques are preaching war on the Infidel and Jew. Globally. As well as a Caliphate.
Have a good evening Sir.
M. Morris RVT
Have a good evening Sir.
M. Morris RVT
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