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Originally Posted by The Reaper

Very pro-Marine

And with some selective reasoning applied...as a survivor-participant of Restore Hope, I recall the USMC was the core of the JTF...not that Somalia was a COIN operation, but for the better part of the first six months, the Marines were in charge...and not functioning all that effectively, either in managing a multi-national task force or at population and resource control...Lebanon was also a Marine-led fuster cluck and while not directly involved, I had a view from the cheap seats and as I recall, Uncle Sam's Misguided Children didn't fare too well there...

I am not saying the Army would have done better, as TR has stated, Big Army had problems with anything south of Fulda, but outside of the SOF community, LIC/COIN or anything else short of tank battles and strategic bombing got short shrift during my watch...

Originally Posted by The Reaper

B-Minus.

That's a Santa Claus grade if ever I saw one...