Problems the Pentagon Must Fix in 2018US Defense Watch, Jan 2, 2017, Ray Starmann
In the last year, the Pentagon did an excellent job prosecuting the war against ISIS in the Middle East. It’s amazing what the military can do when it actually drops the bombs, strafes the targets and double taps the bad guys in the night. It’s amazing what the military can do when it’s not taking orders from liberal morons like Susan Rice and Ben Rhodes.
In 2018, the army must continue to rebuild its nearly non-existent armored and mechanized capabilities which were eviscerated during the last 15 years, while the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan raged and continue to in the latter nation. Because the army and the marines were engaging insurgents, the spotlight was focused on light infantry combat and counter-insurgency warfare at largely the squad and platoon levels. What I call ‘the Lawrence of Arabia’ mentality took hold in the army, resulting in the complete lapse of armored and mechanized training and the total erosion of the skills needed to fight a conventional armored and mechanized war. The army is now scrambling to try and rebuild its armor corps. There is much work to be done.
The navy must strengthen its surface warfare capabilities. 2017 was the year of the collision for US Navy ships in the 7th Fleet. While a plethora of issues are plaguing the surface navy, the biggest problem lies in the complete lack of basic knowledge and skills among its officer corps. ...
Most distressingly, a myriad of social engineering problems still beset the armed forces, many of which have been allowed to metastasize under the guise of General Mad Dog Mattis and his cohort in inactivity, General ‘Fighting Joe’ Dunford.
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