Fuck.

[Minimalist]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/08/politics/i...=rss_world

Top U.S. general recommends more troops for Iraq and Syria

“War is too important to be left to the generals”

― Georges Clemenceau

[The Valkyrie]

At least he's not demanding combat roles...


...yet.

[AFTT47]

Great title, Min. I saw. "Fuck" and I immediately knew what this thread was about.

[vorlon13]

I know what I was HOPING for it to be about . . .

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Of COURSE he's recommending more troops - he's a general, that's what they do. If he were a greengrocer, he'd recommend sending avocados.

Boru

[AFTT47]

I know what I was HOPING for it to be about . . .

I always figured that if they found a way to rewire our brains so that we could better focus on higher things rather than on base things, I would rush to get as close to the front as possible. Vorlon, if you ever find yourself in such a line and you identify yourself, I'll let you cut in front of me.

[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.

[Thumpalumpacus]

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.

... but then you'll be the first one bitching about the kill ratio.

I'll take cherry-picking for a True Daily Double, Alex.

[Minimalist]

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.

We do a fine job training "our" soldiers.... its when we try to train others that we find out that "training" is a panacea and doesn't mean shit when contrasted with the commitment of the other side.

[The Grand Nudger]

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)