EVOLVING MILITARY

[tubman13]

I wonder if McChrystal and DOD foresaw this before his retirement. We often talk of evolving types of warfare and dealing with those changes.

 www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-%e2%80%98new%e2%80%99-type-of-war-that-finally-has-the-pentagon%e2%80%99s-attention/ar-AAcxwxR

[quincannon]

Tom: Some of us have been screaming about this stuff for fifteen or twenty years.

It is not the Army or any of the other Military services that must get a wake up call. It is Congress, and the various administrations who still want to buy expensive toys, that are not always needed or not needed in the numbers purchased, and fail to see the combat potential of that thing you type into, or the exponential gain we can get from a 12 man Operational Detachment Alfa or the humanitarian potential of a San Antonio or Wasp Class amphib.

War is no longer a game of king of the hill. It is a masters level chess match where you screw with the other guys mind.