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2008-05-10 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Bobby 2008-05-10 06:54|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 "I didn't awfully care too much for people from somewhere else to come in and tell me what they were going to do," Fridovich said.

So now each of our proconsuls is going to be able to conduct the war as they see fit without regard to what is happening elsewhere? Not a good way to fight a Global war. Sounds like we will fight this like we fought the war in the Pacific. I hope it turns out as well, but I doubt there will be a uranium bullet this time.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-05-10 08:17|| 2008-05-10 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Micro-management by someone too far up the chain is NOT good. If you are lucky they know their A## from a hole in the ground and don't get you killed. If you NOT lucky you wind up in that hole in the ground.

Posted by tipover 2008-05-10 11:56|| 2008-05-10 11:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Trying to interpret what is really going on here is like squeezing water from a stone. Trying to get different capable military men on the same page is like trying to sweep ants into a pile.

And there is also the inherent dilemma that you can either pay attention to what it happening down the chain, or up the chain, seldom both.

SOCOM has two very different missions as well. Both observation and execution. They need to be balanced, but seldom are.

Then there are the different missions of conventional and unconventional operations. And boy howdy, do they bump heads.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-10 13:25|| 2008-05-10 13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 We've been so quick to make Rumsfeld the scapegoat for the fact that war sucks, IMHO, that I think they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-05-10 14:32|| 2008-05-10 14:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Sounds like we will fight this like we fought the war in the Pacific

I hope so.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-05-10 18:01|| 2008-05-10 18:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Mr. Smiley, ok, except let's skip the Okinawa and Iwo Jima pages and go straight to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since we CAN now, with our modern long-range delivery systems.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-05-10 23:35|| 2008-05-10 23:35|| Front Page Top

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