The Gadfly
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- Feb 7, 2011
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Then somebody needs to tell those thousands of grunts in the mountains of Afghanistan they don't belong there. And we need to sell all those M-16s.[...]
Today's military isn't like it was in WWII, or even Vietnam. We don't give a guy a rifle and send his ass into combat anymore.[...]
Any more wisdom to spread?
You need to understand that sufficient infantry is necessary to preclude the use of nuclear weapons, which could commence the end of the world.
I think you misinterpreted, Mike. After the Squids shell it, and the Zoomies bomb it, and the armor rolls over what's left, the grunts still have to go in and run up the flag. Only now, with the high-tech battlespace, we need a better-educated, smarter, more technically trained grunt to operate all the stuff we use as force multipliers.The old days of massed infantry, artillery, and armor are to all intents, over, unless one wants to pile up casualties; these are simply too vulnerable on the modern battlefield, as Desert Storm demonstrated.