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Originally posted by NousDefionsDoc
While I don't have a problem with studies or even outside studies, this one needs to be re-looked IMO. The outcome will likely be "Casualties peaked during those periods of heavy combat" or some such bullshit.
I am also not sure one can go back further than Mogadishu, Gaza, etc., to get a historical look at the current conflict.
Sounds like somebody is getting their master's thesis funded by the taxpayers.
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I guess it is all a matter of perspective. My problems with this process is twofold. First of all, you want to keep the casualties down then take the frigging money you are going to spend on this and spend it on bullets for the troops. The other aspect is more of a personal perspective. I have been part of this "outside agency" process since I have retired on more than one occassion. While I was hired to provide some insight because of special skill sets with which I had acquired some expertise, in my opinion had those tasks been done by those folks who were "guided" in various tasks completion by me, they not only would have learned more, but would have realized that they had the ability to lend more relevancy to what they were going to have to use these skills sets for when they went on their way. And lastly, I have seen some of these products for which the DOD has paid big bucks and the ones that really bugged me where those that reinforced the convoluted logic that drove the requirement for the study in the first place. All they did was waste time and provide the action officer with the "proof" that was needed to drive the program in the direction that had been a fore gone conclusion but needed "outside" corroboration. Again, my perspective from perhaps my own tunnel vision, if you can't figure out what the hell you are doing then get out of the way and let someone else take charge. Don't get me wrong, I fully agree that one should get information from whatever source one can, analyze it, develop the courses of action and come up with recommendations/decisions. But something that is so critical to the core of what the military is all about that has to rely on some damn beltway bandit organization does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling about who is calling the shots in the DOD.
Jack Moroney-where's my prozac
