[lit-ideas] Re: dealing with the Slobodan Husseins
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:53:30 -0700
From: "John McCreery" mccreery@xxxxxxx
(3) Doable? Crushing Saddam's military was always going to be a piece of cake―exactly
the kind of combat that the US military is superbly trained and equipped for.
Using the US Army to crush Iraq was ludicrous. Like using bulldozers to crush peace
activists.
The US Army was trained and equipped to fight large scale land wars against China, Russia,
and North Korea.
The Iraq Army was a mess of poorly-trained, ill-equipped, mislead conscripts with low
morale. Claiming a military victory in those conditions was pure propaganda. A pack of Girl
Scouts could have done just as well.
An army must constantly practice how to coordinate and carry out a massive war. Spending
their time in trivial street patrol, they have lost their training in large scale land wars.
The USA is perhaps at its lowest military capability in decades. Putting the US Army into
Iraq has caused serious damage to the USA that will take years to rebuild.
North Korea can snap their fingers under Uncle Sam's nose and laugh about it. That's why the
USA has done nothing about North Korea; it can't. Quite simply, the USA can't fight a real
war anymore.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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