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Old April 23, 2013, 12:41 PM   #15
btmj
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....right now, this day, our troops are unprepared for conventional warfare. This is not speculation, it's from direct observation of Active Duty units going through training at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, LA. I worked there for a year until recently. They are shifting the training focus to reintroduce conventional maneuver combat skills and they are finding that 10 years of playing super cop in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in our troops no longer knowing how to kill a real enemy army equipped with tanks and artillery and organized structure and doctrine.

Agree... This is the kind of war we have been involved in for the last 10 years. A counter insurgency campaign against an enemy whose primary weapons are (1) terrorizing the local population into submission and (2) booby traps (IEDs) set against the vastly superior friendly forces.

We are/were fighting an enemy that does not have a single tank, helicopter, or fixed wing aircraft.... when are we ever going to face such an enemy again?

Our future enemies will not only have tanks, helicopters, and combat aircraft, they will also have combat ships, attack submarines, advanced anti-aircraft defenses, satellite intelligence, UAVs, electronic warfare, cyber warfare, and who knows what else.
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