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Originally Posted by Maxor
To get back to the original topic...... there is no way on earth that the US military wants to transform most conflicts into guerilla type warefare it totally destroys the advantage of overwhelming firepower that the american military has. Sadly the other guy (country) needs to have his army stay around and fight which isn't particularly likely. Most of the countries which could plausably stand a chance or have the ability to inflict heavy casualties on the US military in a conventional armed conflict are either fairly staunch US allies, (NATO nations Austrailia and Israel) or are extremely interdependant on the US (russia, Ukraine{I think they may have joined nato I'd have to look it up} India, China). Special forces troops are not inexpensive and you can't really afford to disband or drastically reduce conventional forces as long as anyone else has some. Besides currently alot of US world power and prestiage is based on that advamtage destroyed by having low intensity conflicts all the time; their military power to anniliate any given nations military at most any time.
The only reason it is destroyed is because for some reason the US populace isn't into the whole idea kill everyone you can find and sow their fields with salt theory of warfare. I personally think this is a problem with the populace of the US projecting their personal desire for love and acceptance onto the country. It makes the US seem rather insecure to the rest of the world. That is fightening as well as the easy by which the US political system allows for fairly broad shifts in policy on an irregular basis which also tends to mystify the more glacial parts of the world when it comes to change.
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The Idea of transforming the military to a "guerilla type" military is not just foolish but just plain stupid. Yes there are toubles in the military but nothing that can not be fixed. First and for most, get rid of the BS stress chit. It allows a soldier/marine to be weak and unable to handle stresses that combat can and will happen. Increase the size of the military. I don't mean bring back the draft( it was stupid) but pay the soldiers a fair wage for their services. Train our men and women that they are first and for most a soldier. Yes that means infantry. Change the rules of engagement to allow our men to do what they are trained to do. Kill, maim and injure. Teach small unit tactics and allow the non coms to have freedom to work independently when needed.
Smart bombs are great, Dumb bombs are better. Why you ask, They care not about collateral damage. Yet this is still not enough. Yes our troops need to have better tactics as this is not the battle field they are trained for. This means putting the right Generals in charge where they need to be. Most Generals have been trained for grand land conflicts. Where you have armor, infantry and air power all used in conjunction to battle a equal military. We trained for war against the soviets in my day and many of the full birds are now Generals. This is not what they trained for. Yet we do have Generals who are trained and understand the conflicts of todays warfare. Why have we not deployed them.Simple, Its not politically correct for them to carry on war like that. They are trained kill em all, let God sort em out. Well perhaps this is what we need to do. Terrorist can only succeed when nobody is willing to stand up.