Stop Wasting Infantry’s Time: Mattis Task Force
“All too often when we bring things up inside the Beltway, it immediately devolves to material and programs and technology," said Scales. "What we hope comes out of this is not just new machines but new ways of thinking about warfare at the tactical level.â€
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 13, 2018 at 5:42 PM
PowerPoint briefings on personal hygiene, guard duty at base gates, shuffling troops from unit to unit and base to base every few years — all these things take away from building tight-knit teams and training them for combat. The goal, in brief, is to purge bad habits left over from the draft era, when conscripts were treated as free labor and infantrymen, in particular, as unskilled grunts. Instead, the military should treat Army and Marine infantry like fighter pilots, as highly skilled professionals.
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/04/stop-wasting-infantrys-time-mattis-task-force/
