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Originally Posted by Pete
US Army Special Forces are shifting their focus to fighting China or Russia, and they're already practicing for it in Hawaii
https://news.yahoo.com/us-army-speci...133059720.html
"...US special operators have played an instrumental role in the fight against terrorists and insurgent groups over the past 20 years.
Now, as the Pentagon focuses on preparing for a conflict a near-peer or peer military, like China and Russia, the special-operations community is looking for ways to remain relevant in a completely different type of war.
Army special-operations units are particularly concerned, as they make up most of the US Special Operations Command's (SOCOM) numbers...."
A neutral to nice story in the news. |
What is it they think they are going to provide in a peer/near peer conflict? the work we have done since 1952 IS the ground work that was needed to deal with these enemies am I wrong? I heard 10th when I was retiring talking about war with N Korea we had a bunch a GB's that were the higher ranking running around excited talking about expectations of 10th Group taking the lead and 50% casualties expected etc.....and I wondered why 10th and not 1st and are we now shock troops assaulting from the front how the fuck can all these "intelligent" experienced dingbats believe that is a real plan
The SF community has the shortest sight at the top it seems every commander comes along with a new idea on what we are and puts out his vision and the entire regiment runs around like a bunch of sneetches without stars on their bellies looking for the star machine. Everytime we get great officers at the O4-5 level they are hidden away on staff or other assignments where they have no influence.
If it is time for SF to go away or can we pull our heads out of our 4th point of contact and establish what we are, what we do and what our limitations are in near peer conflict and our strengths leading up to it. I doubt we will replace the 3 letter agency on the ground with social media like it is and the newer GBs just cant STFU especially with fame and fortune beckoning and youtube social influencers and talk radio shows etc......these idiots think that GWOT was their finest hour and ignore the fact that it was not and we were exposed for the confused dysfunctional organization we are. More importantly the thin line between the corruption in our Politics and our military focus shows how it easy it is to destroy an institution from the top down by influencing our nations youth with socialism and anti America pro China propaganda yes SF has followed the same decline from Obama era to this very day
The reality is we should have been working in that direction when Clinton inflated Chinas role in our economy or better yet listened to McArthur but we are not planners we are reactionaries. The evil of communism even has many of our own leaders confused as to what it is and how free countries fall to their charms. The name game has them all fooled the leftist thinkers in academia have normalized words like Democracy and replaced the representative republic idea with it and today? we are almost a Democracy within a few voting cycles.....get rid of or revise history and change the order of who was bad and who is good and provide provocative alternative ideas as to why socialism is good and misunderstood and you get America 2021