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Posted by SMAZ on Mon Mar 2 15:55:18 2015, in response to Re: Our Chickenhawk Country, posted by SLRT on Mon Mar 2 12:15:21 2015. I think you vastly overstate the complexity (as opposed to previous militaries) and understate the ability of the military to train for complex tasks. You also seem to assume that future wars will be like the current wars. This attitude has been exacerbated by the "push-button war" in the Balkans.I would like the add that while the complexity may be in fact overstated, the American public's zero tolerance for Americans deaths is not. Public opinion turned on Vietnam at around the 30,000th death. Same with Korea. It turned on Iraq and Afghanistan by the 1000th each (this even though the Afghanistan campaign was almost unanimously supported and seen as an act of national self-defense a la Pearl Harbor). The US military's main focus is to have the lowest casualties possible or no campaign will be supported and an even otherwise competent Presidential Administration will be politically destroyed. |
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