Are New Battle Rules Tying Soldiers Hands?

[elvis]

I thought David Petraeus wrote the counter-insurgency manual.

edit: cowrote.

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Marine-Corps-Counterinsurgency-Field-Manual/dp/0226841510/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246411467&sr=1-2[/ame]

 

[Epsilon Delta]

I thought David Petraeus wrote the counter-insurgency manual.

edit: cowrote.

Amazon.com: The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Sarah Sewall, John A. Nagl, David H. Petraeus, James F. Amos: Books

Well, he wrote and signed the foreword. And I would reckon he knows just a tiny, TINY bit more about counter-insurgency than most clowns around here.

 

[Epsilon Delta]

Ah yes, another FM the government has foisted onto it's own private laboratory for testing new PC ideas. If collateral damage causes others to become terrorists, you kill them too. As long as you are relentless and don't have some chair-polisher trying to overthink the psychology calling the policy, they'll get the message.

Instead, they get to read the "anti's" trying to hold out military to a set of standards Christ himself would be hard-pressed to emulate.

Yeah, well, it's your kids' blood, not mine. Do whatever the fuck you want. I just quoted the people who are supposed to know.