The Army

Just returning from vacation. Was thinking of writing a blog post about my visiting French Canada. Am not going to. I read an interesting article I had put on my kindle ages ago written by a Military guy who was heavily critical of the US Military's fighting ability. He argued that ever since WW2 our military has grown into an unruly behemoth that is best at self preservation, self justification, and self promotion -- and quite bad at winning wars.

Bam. Ouch. But upon reading, he made some very good points:

1. The military blames nearly everyone else for "losing" Vietnam other than itself. They blame the politicians for forcing them to fight with "one hand behind their back," by the American public for not supporting the war long enough, etc. In short, it was someone else's fault...

2. Although the US Military has never lost a "conventional" war, it hasn't been able to win an unconventional war in nearly 100 years.

3. We are either being beaten or playing for a tie against what we are told is an unpopular and not very troop heavy or armor heavy opponent in Afghanistan - the Taliban. How is it that we are spending in excess of $3 Billion dollars an unable to defeat these clowns? Bear in mind, the Taliban wasn't even in full control of Afghanistan prior to 9/11. This is by no means an undefeatable foe. The Northern Alliance was able to go mano-to-mano against them.

Food for thought.