The very idea of war is insane. We send young people with limited life experience to fight in foreign lands, where they neither speak the language nor understand the culture, and expect what exactly? It's often a recipe for disaster.
We mitigate this risk through leadership. Junior officers (trained to manage young troops) are assigned to platoons and companies in the field, while senior officers are charged with planning, coordinating, and directing combat operations -- often at a great distance from the battlefield. It's a system that is most effective when applied to lightning-fast assaults and aggressive apprehension of territory, but woefully ill-suited to long-term occupation, which is where we find ourselves today in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no clear end in sight.
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Unfortunately, that's life in the modern military, particularly for infantry, engineers, medics, and other combat-facing units.
We mitigate this risk through leadership. Junior officers (trained to manage young troops) are assigned to platoons and companies in the field, while senior officers are charged with planning, coordinating, and directing combat operations -- often at a great distance from the battlefield. It's a system that is most effective when applied to lightning-fast assaults and aggressive apprehension of territory, but woefully ill-suited to long-term occupation, which is where we find ourselves today in Iraq and Afghanistan, with no clear end in sight.
Related - War Machine Trailer Exposes The Absurdity Of The War On Terror
Unfortunately, that's life in the modern military, particularly for infantry, engineers, medics, and other combat-facing units.
- 6/2/2017
- by David Kozlowski
- LRMonline.com
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