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rangerrebew

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Army Unprepared for New Adversaries
« on: January 16, 2018, 09:52:02 am »
Army Unprepared for New Adversaries
 

U.S. Army
Thursday, January 11, 2018

A leading military strategist warns that the Army is not prepared to face competent, well-armed adversaries, despite significant combat experience gained against irregular forces and equipment brought into service since 9/11.

In “The Importance of Land Warfare: This Kind of War Redux,” a new essay published by the Association of the U.S. Army’s Institute of Land Warfare, retired Col. David E. Johnson, principal researcher at the RAND Corp., maintains that “U.S. domain supremacy is eroding, if not ending.”

https://www.ausa.org/news/army-unprepared-new-adversaries
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Re: Army Unprepared for New Adversaries
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2018, 03:20:32 pm »
I'd have to agree in principle.  Outside of the brief combat part of the Iraq Invasion, the Army hasn't been training for the type of combat foreseen in Korea or eastern Europe in the last 18 years. That is a generation in military time.
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Re: Army Unprepared for New Adversaries
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2018, 03:29:23 pm »
The adversaries are going to be from within.
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Re: Army Unprepared for New Adversaries
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2018, 01:47:36 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on January 16, 2018, 03:29:23 pm
The adversaries are going to be from within.
Within what?
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"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."  -- John Wayne
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.� ? Euripides, The Bacchae
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.� ? Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.� ? Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
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