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"The pinicle of military deployment approaches the formless. For if it is formless, then even the deepest spy cannot discern it, nor the wise make plans against it." - Sun Tzu
Also digging up a whole area with artillery and bombs after a stray bullet came from somewhere over there makes a coordinated defence difficult at least.
Mods, can you lock this post? Responses are entirely too credible.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Post something funny, I'll upvote you.
I thought I just did. 😞
I'm very well re[g]arded so it's possible this went over my head
It's reasonable to assume that many of us are veterans or to put it another way; can just as easily explain the US doctrine as jerk off in a porta-john in under 5 mins during an Iraqi summer.
That's more like it!
Can I come in time before I pass out from heat exhaustion?
Challenge accepted.
The boobs drawn on the wall should help.
Bonus points if you pass out right when you get that release. Gotta time it right.
All of which has led American trainers to develop a rule of thumb: a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army has as much authority as a colonel in an Arab army.
https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/why-arabs-lose-wars
This is worth its own separate post. Great read
This post is already too credible, so what the fuck, I might as well continue to dishonor it's noncredibility even further.
You can't really compare a modern major Arab army, to a western army. They serve different functions.
Major Arab armies, at least contemporary ones, are designed to primarily preserve the internal social order and hierarchy. They're internal security forces, with war planes and tanks.
Which presents another problem, coup d'etats. You can't risk your command staff aligning against your ruling class, or monarch, so they should not trained, or inclined, to cooperate too much. So you put rivals in charge a different branches, and make sure to purge anyone you cannot trust to preserve the status quo, above all else.
This also means small unit leadership and tactics are antithetical to the purpose of their military.
To be clear, I'm not talking about Arab militant groups or militias, and this is definitely not a function of race. It's function of the types of political systems you currently find in much of, but certainly not all, of the Arab world.
Amazing. From what I heard Russia is the same, I’m wondering how is China (probably similar). Along with the known numbers, it also makes me think if there is even a credible threat to the US military’s dominance - probably not.
It’s also funny, how things like delegation of authority are very simple and proven concepts, yet it’s not used at a lot of places, even western companies. My squad only fights battles with ppts and clients, but I operate in the same way, often having weird interactions with other leaders, when I explain how I don’t hog power and information for myself unnecessarily.
That was a very interesting read. Now I'm super interested to read more papers comparing and contrasting military doctrine. Any ideas where to start?
I don't know where this is from but somehow I feel like this is very rich. I'd like to see someone do better.
Yeah, we're talking about the army that rolls out chain stores in warzones as SOP. Apparently it's pretty haphazard from he inside too, but nobody else can remotely pull that off.
You mean actual stores or fast food type places?
I don't know about gift shops, but definitely fast food and probably clothes too.
Yep, there's a guy buying shoes in one of the Wikipedia article's pictures. Appliances and electronics too. Anything a soldier could reasonably want to buy, although apparently they have their own brand for auto sales, as opposed to a chain.
Navy SEALs eating government-supplied but non-free Big Macs as bullets whistle overhead is just the most aggressively American. I also get a kick out of soda fountains on submarines, although it makes total sense from an engineering perspective.
So, what's the MOS code for Hooters specialist?
8OO8S
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How are you going to keep up morale w/o a Big Mac?
Viet Cong heard that.
I once read at the start of WW2 Germany's military was decentralized and USSR's was centralized. As the war progressed, that flipped. Certainly not the only reason why either side saw successes or failures but I thought it was interesting.
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