Fuck.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Tell him he can have more troops but if his plan doesn't work he gets a firing squad.  

Why does the US spend so much time and money on training when the enemy only has to give their guys 5 minutes?  Maybe we ought to hire their trainers.

So that we can all stand in formation and yell:

"I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained soldier in the world.  In the race for victory I am swift, determined, and courageous.  Armed with a fierce will to win, never will I fail my countries trust, always I fight on, through the foe, to the objective, to victory overall.  If necessary I will fight to my death."

-and mean it.  

Whereas the other guys are chronically shitty with their own equipment no matter who they stole it from or how awesome it is...and run like roaches to save their skin leaving their gear behind them at the ao they lost.  Not that this hasn't been working of late...but that has to do with the ROE more than anything else.   Give a mech infantry company open license and watch how their training clears a city block of effective enemies in an hour, for generations.   OTOH, don't give them that and see how their training prevents wholesale slaughter of anything that sneezes in the wrong direction - even if it means they take a bullet or two for their trouble.  We project our power in a way, even when we fuck up, that's hard to match.  That's training, and it's expensive.

(my bolds for you Min....seems we have trouble instilling that in others, agreed)

When it's all said and done it's stupid for people to run off to war just because some dumb ass politician tells them to do it.  The most they get out of it is some medals worth a couple of pennies.