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Under Obama here is one of the most egregious "Rules of Engagement" (ROE) which shows how little he knew as well as his advisers of how a battle field really works!
A laminated card ROE with the following text was distributed to all U.S. Army and Marine personnel in Iraq.
Policies about limiting civilian casualties have soldiers complaining they can't effectively fight; one showed author Michael Hastings a card with regulations including:
"Patrol only in areas that you are reasonably certain that you will not have to defend yourselves with lethal force."
For a soldier who has traveled halfway around the world to fight, that’s like telling a cop he should only patrol in areas where he knows he won’t have to make arrests.
“Does that make any f–king sense?” Pfc. Jared Pautsch.
In Afghanistan, a New General -- But An Old Strategy
“We have the capacity to annihilate the Taliban threat. But because of the rules of engagement under the new mission, our hands are tied,” said an American adviser to the coalition in Helmand, who described the rules as incomprehensible.
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But under Trump who understands very thoroughly how the military works..(remember he went to a military academy.) while Obama hated the military.
“You see some of the results of releasing our military from, for example, a proximity requirement — how close was the enemy to the Afghan or the U.S.-advised special forces?” Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee in the morning.
“That is no longer the case, for example. So these kind of restrictions that did not allow us to employ the air power fully have been removed, yes.” “We are no longer bound by the need for proximity to our forces,” Mattis told the House Armed Services Committee in the afternoon.
“It used to be we have to basically be in contact with that enemy.”
Mattis reveals new rules of engagement
The idea that controlling a situation from the White House is superior to the combatant commander is just ridiculous.
The combatant commander is going to be immersed in the regional politics and will have access to back channel communications that the White House doesn’t even know about. The Obama decision was about control, credit, and risk aversion.
Hopefully that day is passing fast and we start teaching our commanders how to be commanders again.
New Trump Policy to Relax Rules of Engagement in Hunting Terrorists
A laminated card ROE with the following text was distributed to all U.S. Army and Marine personnel in Iraq.
Policies about limiting civilian casualties have soldiers complaining they can't effectively fight; one showed author Michael Hastings a card with regulations including:
"Patrol only in areas that you are reasonably certain that you will not have to defend yourselves with lethal force."
For a soldier who has traveled halfway around the world to fight, that’s like telling a cop he should only patrol in areas where he knows he won’t have to make arrests.
“Does that make any f–king sense?” Pfc. Jared Pautsch.
In Afghanistan, a New General -- But An Old Strategy
“We have the capacity to annihilate the Taliban threat. But because of the rules of engagement under the new mission, our hands are tied,” said an American adviser to the coalition in Helmand, who described the rules as incomprehensible.
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But under Trump who understands very thoroughly how the military works..(remember he went to a military academy.) while Obama hated the military.
“You see some of the results of releasing our military from, for example, a proximity requirement — how close was the enemy to the Afghan or the U.S.-advised special forces?” Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee in the morning.
“That is no longer the case, for example. So these kind of restrictions that did not allow us to employ the air power fully have been removed, yes.” “We are no longer bound by the need for proximity to our forces,” Mattis told the House Armed Services Committee in the afternoon.
“It used to be we have to basically be in contact with that enemy.”
Mattis reveals new rules of engagement
The idea that controlling a situation from the White House is superior to the combatant commander is just ridiculous.
The combatant commander is going to be immersed in the regional politics and will have access to back channel communications that the White House doesn’t even know about. The Obama decision was about control, credit, and risk aversion.
Hopefully that day is passing fast and we start teaching our commanders how to be commanders again.
New Trump Policy to Relax Rules of Engagement in Hunting Terrorists
