The Army Is Training Specialized Companies Of Green Berets To Crack "Hard Targets"

[Tahuyaman]

That and generals want high paying jobs with defense contractors when they retire.

That doesn’t have much to do with the fact that our military leadership no longer plans strategically.

today’s military leaders are trained simply to be war fighters. They aren’t concerned with thinking strategically to achieve a long-term outcome.


They are trained to believe that winning individual battles is actually winning the war. They are no longer trained to pick their battles based on a strategy to achieve a complete victory.

[Peter1469]

That doesn’t have much to do with the fact that our military leadership no longer plans strategically.

Except their strategy is to keep the wars burning hot.

[Tahuyaman]

Except their strategy is to keep the wars burning hot.

They are trained as war fighters, not war enders.

[Peter1469]

They are trained as war fighters, not war enders.

When their commander in chief tells them to get out of Afghanistan that is what they should do.

But they aren't.