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2014-11-21 Home Front: WoT

HAGEL: The World Is 'Damn Dangerous' And Our Army Is Not Ready

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Posted by Chineter Threrenter7632 2014-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 This lack of a general fund of widely disseminated military information is perilous to the maintenance of civilian power in government. The civilian mind, presumably concerned with the maintenance of peace and the shaping of policies by the limits of efficient military defense, can derive no instruction from acrimonious disputes between militarists, limitless in their demands, and pacifists, lost in utopian visions. Where the civilians fail to comprehend and guide military policy, the true military men, distinguished from the militarists, are also imperiled. For these the executioners of civilian will, dedicated to the preparation of defense and war with the utmost regard for efficiency, are dependent upon the former.

Again, and again, the military men have seen themselves hurled into war by ambitions, passions, and blunders of civilian governments, almost wholly uninformed as to the limits of their military potentials and almost recklessly indifferent to the military requirements of the wars they let loose. Aware that they may again be thrown by civilians into an unforeseen conflict, perhaps with a foe they have not envisaged, these realistic military men find themselves unable to do anything save demand all the men, guns, and supplies they can possibly wring from the civilians, in the hope that they may be prepared or half prepared for whatever may befall them. In so doing they inevitably find themselves associated with militaristic military men who demand all they can get merely for the sake of having it without reference to ends.

Vagts, Alfred, History of Militarism, rev. 1959, Free Press, NY, pp 33-34.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-21 00:22|| 2014-11-21 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 But as soon as you'll have female rangers...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-21 03:17|| 2014-11-21 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 No, g(r)om, we already have female rangers. The article yesterday was about training cadre, 'watchers'. You can fail Ranger School, any time, for any reason, or for no reason. They watch you, and will walk up to someone and say "go home". The final test is about 40 hours long, continuous, and is sort of a cross between a scavenger hunt and a death march (that's the best I can describe it). Fatigue is the big enemy, can you make good decisions when you can't think straight. The answer is no, but how long can you hold out.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-21 07:32|| 2014-11-21 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Female Rangers already Ed? I was not aware of that.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-21 07:35|| 2014-11-21 07:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Anyway, about Hagel's statement:
"No Sh*t, Sherlock"
You can only make so many withdrawals from your account, and there's a lot of training not going on because people are deployed every friggin where.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-21 07:36|| 2014-11-21 07:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Talk to your friggin boss about this.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-21 07:44|| 2014-11-21 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 We've declared the peace dividend before the war is over.

Posted by Matt 2014-11-21 09:01|| 2014-11-21 09:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Next up the pre-fire sale.

Posted by Shipman 2014-11-21 09:37|| 2014-11-21 09:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Pretty sure the Regiment is still a boy's club. It is where I'm at and thanks to them I sleep safe every night while they are at work. Work I think all of them - to a MAN - enjoy.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2014-11-21 09:44|| 2014-11-21 09:44|| Front Page Top

#10 and they RIF'ing their junior officers as they are coming back from the sand boxes

Posted by texhooey 2014-11-21 15:09|| 2014-11-21 15:09|| Front Page Top

#11 More this AM ...

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [News On Japan] US PANEL: [Growing, Increasingly Tech-Sophisticated] CHINA MILITARY THREAT [ + Nuclear] COULD AFFECT JAPAN.

Nippon security + readiness, + ultimately current US superiority.

* CHINA DAILY > OPINION: TICKING TIME BOMB BETWEEN CHINA + US IN ASIA-PACIFIC.

* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > RECENT LR RUSSIAN TU-95 "BEAR" BOMBER FLIGHTS TO GUAM [November 14TH, 2014] CALLS INTO QUESTION SECURITY OF US-CONTROLLED, GUAM-BASED/CENTERED "SECOND-ISLAND CHAIN".

* SAME > CANAL WARS?: BEIJING BELIEVES THAT ONCE THE MOSTLY CHINA-BUILT, CHINA-FINANCED
"NICARAGUAN CANAL" IS COMPLETED, THE US WILL HAVE TO ABANDON PANAMA + CENTRAL, LATIN AMERICAS.

Which is thusly one reason why aong many that Madonna fan from Guam says to DREDGE THE RIO GRANDE = BUILD A CANAL ALONG THE US-MAHICO BORDER, hence solving several strategic problems for the US at one time.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-11-21 22:57|| 2014-11-21 22:57|| Front Page Top

#12 OOOPPPSIES, forgot TOPIX > IS JAPAN THE MISSING LINK IN CHINA'S ASIA-PACIFIC DREAM?

Why yes, yes it is.

Besides TAIWAN, GUAM-WESTPAC + the US State of HAWAII = EASTPAC, China would also like sovereign control or geopol domination of JAPAN iff it can do so.

No matter the rhetoric to the contrary, in China's mind, there can only be one final or ultimate Leader - itself - in Asia or East Asia, let alone any future OWG ASIAN OR EAST ASIAN UNION, ETC. NE ASIA IS CHINA'S "TRUE/REAL" LAKE - IT CAN ACCEPT OR TOLERATE JAPAN AS A VASSAL OR INFERIOR "PARTNER-COOPER STATE", BUT NEVER AS PAR OR THE SUPERIOR.

Besides all other rationales, I have no doubts China will N-E-V-A-R! accept any "post-US/GMD-TMD" Japan as a PAR OWG CO-SUPERPOWER. As long as Japan continues to resist + see itself as Asia's or East Asia's #1, A SINO-JAPAN WAR IS ALL BUT INEVITABLE. CHINA WILL ATTACK + NUKE JAPAN FIRST BEFORE IT ALLOWS JAPAN TO ACQUIRE NUKES + PROMOTE ITSELF AS ASIA'S ONE-N-ONLY EL SUPREMO.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-11-21 23:17|| 2014-11-21 23:17|| Front Page Top

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