ACIN
I didn’t refer to them as wars more because of how few troops are there.
Wars are fought with armies and army groups. When you have something less than a division in one place and not much over a corps in the other they just don’t rise to that level of intensity.
It was not to denigrate the fact that their is combat I was just trying to get you to understand how very small our armed forces are.
Another way to think of it is that in an intense war situation our whole military including marines, reserves, and national guard could cover a line 75 miles long with no back up.
We are involved in low intensity combat ATM so they stretch one division that covers 5 miles to cover hundreds of miles and we still don’t have the men to do the job even with all the high tech stuff.
It comes down to needing that man on the ground...and we don’t have them.
This by its self leads to more casualties, military and civilian. A few men are a lot jumpier than a bunch. There is courage in numbers. Jumpy men make more mistakes and everyone pays for that.
You can tell there is not enough command and control too. Youtube Videos of tanks running over cars, the pows abused. All of that points to not enough people doing too big a job.
The military can’t order enough troops to do the job, only the politicians can, and they won’t because the people won’t stand for it and they won’t get reelected.
The graft and corruption is in the system because Congress and the POTUS put it there. That was past of course but the ones now won’t get rid of it. Campaign Contributions!
Anyone working for the government or military can tell you about it but only the elected officials can do anything to change it. So it is just a circle.
We need honest men working for the people and if any of them are elected, I don’t know them.
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