The military is frequently accused of preparing to fight the last war, but the US military doesn’t even do that anymore. It just fights the same battles over and over again. It’s a completely astrategic institution. - ThreadSky

bafriedman.bsky.social • 47 days ago

The military is frequently accused of preparing to fight the last war, but the US military doesn’t even do that anymore. It just fights the same battles over and over again. It’s a completely astrategic institution.

Reposted from Jason "Red5" Lyall

That because there's no strategy, no theory of victory, no metrics for success --- just vibes ("it's been a bad three weeks for the Houthis and it's about to get a lot worse").

Just bombing for the sake of "doing something"

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frangsbo.bsky.social•47 days ago

This is the US version of Israel's 'mowing the grass' and we see how that went for them.

dixonij.bsky.social•46 days ago

If I have to go defend Atropia one more time...

christosilvia.bsky.social•47 days ago

Air Powerlessness

bornbrokeagain.bsky.social•46 days ago

GDP up on strong weapons sales!

hbreistein.bsky.social•47 days ago

I don’t get it, didn’t they restore deterrence? I’m sure of it; they said so. It didn’t stick or something?

bafriedman.bsky.social•47 days ago

SAMS and equivalent grads trying to slot the above sentence into their MDMP cooked brains.

bafriedman.bsky.social•47 days ago

I was assigned a task once and it was pretty big. I asked my boss if he thought a SAW grad would be better. He said, “if I wanted the problem admired, I’d put a SAW grad on it. I want it solved.”

courageconquers.bsky.social•47 days ago

I’m gonna go out on a limb here… your SAW… I take it you don’t mean “Squad Automatic Weapon?”🤔

ctreese2.bsky.social•47 days ago

School of Advanced Warfighting. I loathe that name because it presumes normal warfighting vs advanced warfighting. As military schools go though, one of the best learning experiences I had.

courageconquers.bsky.social•47 days ago

I just looked at the embedded video on the MCU website. Looks like a high-speed course. I was impressed by the interviews w/graduates.

bafriedman.bsky.social•47 days ago

This but also I was a SAW gunner years before when I was enlisted. Probably why they wouldn’t let me into SAW.

darklaughtertdb.bsky.social•47 days ago

We could rename it the School of Additional Basic Warfighting.

danryan17.bsky.social•47 days ago

ctreese2.bsky.social•47 days ago

Okay, my counter is probably some action-biased dude who couldn't figure out an alternative or better approach to the battle he'd been assigned to do over again by the other unoriginal G.O. over him, but do go on.

ctreese2.bsky.social•47 days ago

And in truth, the problem to some degree rests with political leadership as well. "Hey Boss, we've been down this road, these needs another solution, like, maybe a ceasefire in the place they are angry about." "No, I need you to make things go boom and bring me targets to pick."

iantb.bsky.social•47 days ago

Yikes.

heathenhistory.bsky.social•47 days ago

:stares in Clausewitz: The military is astrategic because different administrations do the same astrategic things and give no real policy direction other than what the last guy did.

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•47 days ago

Both have huge blind spots because they avoid looking at the overlap between politics and military affairs: each assuming it is the other's domain they should stay out of.

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