Comments on: Critics: Pentagon Still Not Adjusting to Insurgency http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/critics_pentagon_still_not_adjusting_to_insurgency/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:40:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: anonvet http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/critics_pentagon_still_not_adjusting_to_insurgency/comment-page-1/#comment-48182 anonvet Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:47:14 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=10860#comment-48182 And you sir, don't really know what you are talking about as well. The U.S. Army did such a wonderful job of adjusting to counterinsurgency warfare, they were still trying to fight set piece battles through 1969-1970. However, you do have the tired fallback of blaming it on media, politicians, etc. instead of blaming the military for its repeated mistakes. Now we are in the same position again. As a member of armed forces who is serving here in Iraq, I can assure that we are not on the way to wonderful victory. For you to say that we will adapt is ridiculous. How can it be innovative for those fellows to have culture and arabic classes when they should have been doing that in the first place? I know where they are operating and I know about their success rate. If you call sweeping up all of the men in a village innocent or not as going after the enemy, well, it doesn't take a genius to how the general populace feels about the presence of our forces. I don't think we can adapt or will ever adapt fully. We want to fight the same set-piece battles against an enemy that is just bidind its time until we are nickle and dimed enough where our forces cannot sustain. All warfare is situational and if we fall back on the if and but argument, we will never win. P.S. is the bronze star for valor, or for just doing a good job at whatever. I remember distinctly during the gulf war that there was an orgy of awards given. My question is, does you bronze star hold up under the same scrutiny that you gave John Kerry's medals? Just curious And you sir, don't really know what you are talking about as well. The U.S. Army did such a wonderful job of adjusting to counterinsurgency warfare, they were still trying to fight set piece battles through 1969-1970. However, you do have the tired fallback of blaming it on media, politicians, etc. instead of blaming the military for its repeated mistakes. Now we are in the same position again. As a member of armed forces who is serving here in Iraq, I can assure that we are not on the way to wonderful victory. For you to say that we will adapt is ridiculous. How can it be innovative for those fellows to have culture and arabic classes when they should have been doing that in the first place? I know where they are operating and I know about their success rate. If you call sweeping up all of the men in a village innocent or not as going after the enemy, well, it doesn't take a genius to how the general populace feels about the presence of our forces. I don't think we can adapt or will ever adapt fully. We want to fight the same set-piece battles against an enemy that is just bidind its time until we are nickle and dimed enough where our forces cannot sustain. All warfare is situational and if we fall back on the if and but argument, we will never win.

P.S. is the bronze star for valor, or for just doing a good job at whatever. I remember distinctly during the gulf war that there was an orgy of awards given. My question is, does you bronze star hold up under the same scrutiny that you gave John Kerry's medals? Just curious

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