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To: LindyBill who wrote (343536)	1/17/2010 8:49:19 AM
From: unclewest	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 793927

This is about the five year commitment program that the DOD wants from O-Corps types for the AfPac program. Most CO's have been discouraging their Officers from volunteering. Over 1/2 of the SF soldiers on active duty have over 20 years service. Nearly all have over 5 years. Over 1/2 of the officer corps gets out at 1st chance. Four months of language training is not going to change any of that picture. The difference here is SF smells victory doing things their way. The hyper-conventionals smell defeat doing things their way. In the proposed assignment situation, there is absolutely nothing that an unskilled, untrained, inexperienced officer can do that an SF NCO cannot do better. Why not send all 600 of the officers to SF training? Better yet, why not send them all home and turn all counter-insurgency war operations over to SF Leadership? Some COs discourage such duty for the conventional elite...of course they do. Such a change after 8 years requires them to immediately admit failure to prevail in another counter-insurgency campaign. They want all of Obama's 18 months to secure another promotion. They would also have to admit that SF had the winning game plan afterall. They still do not comprehend that the terrorists still maintain an edge over all the high tech gizmos. The CIA fiasco proved that. The hyper-conventional side of the US Army does not know how to win a counter-insurgency. West Point dropped COIN from their curriculum after Nam. Because they knew they blew it and wanted all future wars to be all conventional. They never considered that our opponents are clever enough to make war only at our weak points. The cutting edge problem is our senior generals never learned COIN. And they are too proud of their WP rings to go to SF for realistic answers and solutions. Still today, the bastards won't give SF one assigned helicopter. Where are all the helicopters? Here is a hint. When was the last time you read about a senior army officer being killed or wounded by an IED? Still today, Galula's book merely makes the West Point recommended reading list. No SF generated Field Manuals are on the list. A. They do not want their junior officers learning a new way to win. SF lives with what they can carry. Military equipment contractors hate us for that. If it doesn't fit in a rucksack, we don't want it and won't buy it. B. The other side of the same coin is the conventional regular army. You know...the army that buys everything and always pays too much. Retiring generals have learned they cannot make a self licking ice cream cone out of A, but they can get filthy rich serving on corporate boards that know how to play game B.

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