by rogerhb » Sat 25 Nov 2006, 23:37:49
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('armegeddon', 'i')t is the greatest militarty empire the world has ever seen.
The military does not operate in a vacuum, it is funded and directed by the politicians. It is a hammer, not every foreign problem is a nail. Not every foreign problem is solveable with the military.
The US military does not understand foreign cultures because the majority of Americans do not understand foreign cultures.
The US Army is not a counter-insurgency or peace-keeping army, it is a big conventional war army, that was historically it's role, that is how it is organized and that is what it trained for.
"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers." - Henry Louis Mencken