Our troops are not in that business anymore. It’s the New COIN, coined by Petreus. Armed Peace Corps. Hearts and Minds on steroids. Enemy can put down a weapon in a firefight and walk away, we can’t shoot them. WE let them try try again until they kill some of us. That is the Petreaus Plan: to convert them to niceness by our display of niceness. Medals for taking bullets without firing back.
“Enemy can put down a weapon in a firefight and walk away, we can’t shoot them.”
My earliest recollection of combat came from my Uncle Louie who killed a bunch of enemy Japs at New Guinea (sp) in World War II.
To the best of my recollection, he didn’t allow an enemy to set down a weapon and walk away. If he had, I’m sure my cousins would have never been born. And my Uncle Louie could not have relayed his various excursions about New Guinea to me.
My father dropped really big bombs on Nazi heads. He took me to AO Smith when I was a kid and showed me mock-ups of bombs. He was right - those were really big bombs. Most Americans don’t know that manufacturers were very proud of what they did to save America. Many offered weekend tours.
Time to hit the rack. Best wishes to you and yours.
I’d say something, but anyone who has ever read any of my posts on Iraq and F ghanistan already knows what I have to say about this sh!+.
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He’s thinking about his post-retirement stints at various think tanks and institutions. In return they will set him up as some sort of modern day Patton and give him all sorts of accolades. A few decades from now our boys will ride out to do it all again in their Petreus Armored Vehicles.
Is COIN COunter INsurgency? Or something else?
When my son’s unit had the ROE brief, the Army lawyer sent to talk to them set up scenerios regarding the ROE. By the end of the brief he told them that with their attitude he would be seeing them again because he would be prosecuting them in the future.