Titan6
member
Not in the Middle East right now but some time this year I see the sand box calling me back to play.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on war. You can say we should fight this country or that or not at all and this is how a free country works. Call your congressmen, vote, campaign, please share your opinion, it renews my faith in this country every time I hear it. I don't feel for one second that I am not being fully supported because you don't like this president or that SECDEF or think we shouldn't be beating on what ever country is currently being beat upon. Now those morons that go to military funerals and protest, if I ever end up in a dark alley with one of those fellars well......
On the other hand telling the military how to run a war with tactics and strategy is kind of idoitic when all you know about it is what you have read somewhere or seen on TV. Not that the military is not open to ideas, but the source is always considered and some ideas are particularly lame and foolish.
Think of it as trying to coach a football game when you can not see the playing field. You keep sending in plays straight from the pros playbook and your guys keep getting clobbered. Until you actually see what is happening on the field you will never know why you are getting beat (and then still might not know). It is called situational awareness. You can't get it without being there.
There is far more study and thought that goes into these things than most may ever realize. Unfortunately whenever a war comes up and everyone with a sharp pointy pencil (or keyboard and High speed internet) comes out of the woodwork. When the idea of the day dosen't work than more often than not another idea is pulled off the shelf even though the situation has changed and the "new" idea it is tried without success.
Despite being invincible supermen; soldiers and leaders still make mistakes. Just that it is when we get hit in the head with kryptonite our mistakes make the 10 oclock news and get sent around the internet at the speed of thought. So if you want your say please by all means send out your opinion but unless you are ready, willing and able to sign up and go out and do it yourself leave the strategy and tactics to the soldiers in the field.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion on war. You can say we should fight this country or that or not at all and this is how a free country works. Call your congressmen, vote, campaign, please share your opinion, it renews my faith in this country every time I hear it. I don't feel for one second that I am not being fully supported because you don't like this president or that SECDEF or think we shouldn't be beating on what ever country is currently being beat upon. Now those morons that go to military funerals and protest, if I ever end up in a dark alley with one of those fellars well......
On the other hand telling the military how to run a war with tactics and strategy is kind of idoitic when all you know about it is what you have read somewhere or seen on TV. Not that the military is not open to ideas, but the source is always considered and some ideas are particularly lame and foolish.
Think of it as trying to coach a football game when you can not see the playing field. You keep sending in plays straight from the pros playbook and your guys keep getting clobbered. Until you actually see what is happening on the field you will never know why you are getting beat (and then still might not know). It is called situational awareness. You can't get it without being there.
There is far more study and thought that goes into these things than most may ever realize. Unfortunately whenever a war comes up and everyone with a sharp pointy pencil (or keyboard and High speed internet) comes out of the woodwork. When the idea of the day dosen't work than more often than not another idea is pulled off the shelf even though the situation has changed and the "new" idea it is tried without success.
Despite being invincible supermen; soldiers and leaders still make mistakes. Just that it is when we get hit in the head with kryptonite our mistakes make the 10 oclock news and get sent around the internet at the speed of thought. So if you want your say please by all means send out your opinion but unless you are ready, willing and able to sign up and go out and do it yourself leave the strategy and tactics to the soldiers in the field.