Great Satan's new school mix featuring intelligentsia and regime killers in creating a future military fully crunk is a challlenge. "Resolving the stark divergence between America's military ends and means--in"Ground Truth The Future of US Land Power" by Frederick Kagan and Thomas Donnelly brings up 5 killer quizes like "The Nature of Conflict and Attempts to Predict the Nature of Future War"
terms of force size, training, and modernization--will be a crucial challenge."
What is the strategic role of Great Satan's insurgent surging, regime changing, globestomping, Ray Bann wearing, heavy intelligent precision weaponry bearing, skoal chomping heathern hellions on the ground?
Future Missions?
What is the nature of land warfare in the twenty-first century?
What qualities are necessary to succeed on the battlefields of the Long War?
What is the ideal size and configuration of the force--and how much will it cost?
The chapter about recent regime changes in record time, surging, and counter T ops looks pretty cool - even featuring a Little Satan event too. Love the titles!
The Invasion of Iraq: Speed Kills
Tal Afar: Conventional Forces in Irregular War
Israel in Lebanon: Serial Surprise
Lost and Won: The Fight for Anbar
Building Partners: The Abu Sayyaf Campaign
This is significant. Dr. Donnelly and Dr Kagan (who helped think up Surge as his bit in the ISG) laid down the gauntlet with his recent Weekly Standard piece defining success and dissing dissenters
Here is a gauntlet thrown down: Let those who claim that the current
strategy has failed and must be replaced lay out their own strategy, along with
their definition of success, criteria for evaluating success, and the
evidentiary basis for their evaluations.
Then, perhaps, we can have a real national debate on this most important
issue.
"Ground Truth" makes a case for a high tech fully crunk future military that can kill, heal and deal with rocket rich rejects in innocent civilian heavy pocket caliphates, rising regional semi nuke wmd hegemonal theocracies and old school family gangsta states, amphibing Sino civil wars across the straights of Taiwan, scary scary oathbreaking NoKo guy, Russian force projections and retarded pitiful little rats nests that misrule, rob, torment their own people and their neighbors.
War Machine 01 by RsCoNeTt
The left have no intention of picking up any gauntlet,and success isn't even in their vocabulary. John Lennon's "Imagine" is their foreign policy doctrine. Complaints about methods and arguments over tactics are just symptoms of the surrender disease.
ReplyDeleteThe wars of the 21st Century will be vastly different from the 20th Century. The new battlefield is the city and town, not the fields and roads.
ReplyDeleteThe enemy we face and will face will hide in plain site in any city or town they control. They will and do use civilians as shields knowing fully well that any civilian losses will seem to the leftists as murder. Thus the West, especially the US and Israel will have to tie their hands behind their backs before they attempt any operations.
The way to fight this war is to forget about collateral damage reports and keep fighting. If Israel had been allowed to continue operations in Lebanon in 2006 for just 10 more days, they would have destroyed Hezbollah. But the pictures of the dead children (used as shields by Hezbollah) were too much for the soft, kind-hearted liberals to bear. Thus Israel was stopped and Hezbollah is stronger.
In the future, one must make very clear that civilians are not sacrosanct, they do not s--t gold. Civilians can be targets when the enemy uses them as shields, when the enemy chooses to engage in combat from behind them, when the enemy decides to use their neighborhoods to put their rocket factories in them.
And let's start with the 2 leftist candidates and here their crafty plans for Iraq...I want to hear some love from America for not being attacked since the big one in 01...feel glad to be focusing on the economy, cuz if our main concern was terrorism George wouldn't have done his job. Great post as usual... :)N
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high tech fully crunk future military that can kill
ReplyDeleteSounds the way to go.
Great post! "Only a dedicated, bipartisan effort can create a ground force that is not only larger and more flexible, but retrained and reequipped" says Kagan. Bipartisan? Somehow I doubt; the differences between the two parties are stark. A McCain administaration maybe, yes possibly. The questions the author poses need to be addressed soon.
ReplyDeleteHi Kevin - that's what I've noticed - the only alt they offer is retreat and repeat.
ReplyDeleteKagan's stuff looks pretty solid - I hope to snag a copy here soon.
Hi Findalis true - Geneva Conv says using civie sheilding for military stuff or combatants is no sheild. While it may be illegal to target ppl in a crowd of innocents it's a ok to target gear - like rifles, helmets and beltbuckles.
ReplyDeleteHi Nikki - true that - for all the complaints a horrific T strike here at home is not on the list. thanks for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteHi Joseph! Thank you! And GsGf loves you too.
ReplyDeleteHi Lil jimmy. Thanks. Seems only democracies can deploy and maintain 30 year in the future militaries. SwEeT!
ReplyDeleteHi Otto! There is hope for a BP approach. It's not like a certain party's domain - it's for the entire nation. On that ground, things may be pretty easy going.
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