Michael Lawson wrote:


"beerbarrel" wrote in message
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http://www.forsakethetroops.info/


What a guy he really is!

Mr. Crook doesn't know history very well; those without
a military tend to get run over by those who do. He may
not like the Iraq war, but effectively disbanding the
military by eliminating all forms of recompense is akin
to asking to get clobbered over the head.

--Mike L.

I wouldn't go THAT far, but I DO think that the US military needs a
total, top down reconstruction. A modern guerilla insurgency (like the
one in Iraq) will run circles around a typical bureaucratic military
structure (like the US armed forces) because the big military
bureaucracy has absolutely no way of responding to the tactics of the
insurgents as fast as the insurgents can change said tactics. We need to
eliminate much of the bureaucracy (it's ridiculous that only 1 out of 4
active duty US soldiers are combat ready troops) and get more rapid
response strike force type units that can be dropped in to the middle of
an insurgent held area, adapt to insurgent tactics as fast as the
insurgents can change them without having to go through layers of
bureaucracy to do so, and live off the land while fighting outwards from
the middle to join other strike force units in a pincer action to cut
off insurgent cells from one another and force them to wither away. I
realize that in the US at least creating a more mobile, better
responding military that's more able to fight the wars of the future
(wars in which there are no front lines and the bad guys don't wear
uniforms) will mean a lot of entrenched bureaucrats having to give up
power, but the demands of the war on terror demand nothing less.


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