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Originally Posted by Jay
Colonel,
But say we can optimize the whole process right?? When you optimize the process, productivity increases, there by you can less number of people...right? Its not they gonna lay off everyone of them, but its just that you need to find the right mix.
And this post is not related to Pakistani army, I'm just asking a general question to the Colonel.
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There is no such thing as "optimizing." I've been three re-orgs (from 1st Canadian Division to the Canadian Mechanized Brigade Groups, from the CMBGs to the Battle Groups, and from BGs to Combat Teams/Company Groups) and each time, we had to give up something. We had to stop doing a few things that still makes me cringe.
You've got things like cameras replacing patrols; mortars replacing howitzers; actually, directed fire taking big time precedent over indirect fire; the camera and GPS replacing the FOO (Forward Observation Officer) and trusting that birdbrain not to misread his instruments (the fact that we've lost 4 guys to an idiot birdbrain says that we have a long way to go). Now, who is comfortable?
Bear in mind that I am a dinosaur. I've seen a great decline in actual combat capability since the end of the Cold War. During the Cold War, we had a two and a half war doctrine - meaning that we were to take on the Soviets in both Europe and the Far East while fighting an Iraq type enemy somewhere else. Look how far we've fallen when we consider the Iraq War as a major war. Think about this. The Americans and Soviets were in Vietnam and Afghanistan respectively and they still managed to field the kind of forces needed to fight WWIII. Today? Both are done in by Chechnya and Iraq.
Now, I know that I'm a dinosaur and my kind would probably be still knuckle dragging around with clubs but are my concerns valid?
Back to the topic at hand, I'll answer you this way. What are you going to give up and how comfortable are you at giving it up?