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| Braggistan in the America of the Imagination |
| 2008-07-18 |
| Why the military loses the information war |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #4 The trainees, especially those who’d actually been to the wars, complained bitterly about the lack of realism there, crowding around my Humvee at one point to tick off their grievances. The injects—IEDs and snipers—were more typical of Iraq than Afghanistan, they said, where you’re more likely to encounter rocket fire from a distance. The some elements of the 'Iraq' training are still applicable. Which is why (without going into detail), some deploying Marine units are getting training for both environments. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-07-18 22:04 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Woozle Unusosing8053 2008-07-18 20:51 |
| #2 Can we rise up and crush the 5th column among us now? Please? Pretty Please? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-18 11:42 |
| #1 It's because all wars have two front. The second being the Home Front. While the military culture will address PR in their training at CGSC or the War College, they don't organize for, fund, or fight on that front. Just like the Air Force senior leaderships blind pursuit of more Raptors, the military pursues what it feels comfortable and familiar with rather than fight the war they have. They refuse to acknowledge that MSM is in fact allied with the enemy and that they have to fight that fight. The whole episode of the military blogs and the leaderships response to it demonstrated beyond any question they do not grasp how to take it the enemy. Here they were given a technological weapon to leverage against their opponent and instead of embracing it and exploiting it, they turned around and sought to crippled it. It's one of the problems of 'professionalism' in that it can narrow the focus at the expense of the overall objective. Vietnam should have taught them that you can win all the battles and still lose the war. Never do they cross the line to ask why fight the war you do not intend to win if winning it means having to operate outside of that focus. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-07-18 11:17 |