Posted on 05/11/2024 9:23:18 AM PDT by McGruff
Forced to do more with less and learning from the war in Ukraine, U.S. special operations commanders are juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next five years.
The conflicting pressures are forcing a broader restructuring of the commando teams, which are often deployed for high-risk counterterrorism missions and other sensitive operations around the world. The changes under consideration are being influenced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including lessons learned by British special operations forces there.
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The United States is “taking a lot of lessons learned out of the experience in Ukraine, mostly through the eyes of our U.K. special operations partners, who not only have done that in their formations, but they’ve also learned very quickly that they needed other elements of their joint force,” he told The Associated Press in an interview.
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Maybe they can borrow some equipment from al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
What did it say about that?
The article is about adding experts and technicians, skills, not about equipment.
US military seems have morphed into a highly specialized and very expensive global police force
Down below, we have vast corporate, political and government bureaucratic bloat, which exists to support itself and engage in the fashionable trends of DC, like DEI
At the top, we’ve got some excellent high-end weapons and highly skilled operators, but its far too costly, and the man-power doesn’t exist, to replicate them on a mass scale - at least on a scale necessary to confront peer adversaries.
“The United States is “taking a lot of lessons learned out of the experience in Ukraine, mostly through the eyes of our U.K. special operations partners”
Sure sounds like it.
Yes. Seeing the basic thrust of the war in Ukraine, and imagining any conflict with China, one has to grasp that any peer-level confrontation is going to be a war of Attrition. There is just no way the US can fight a war of Attrition. I consider such a though to be laughable.
Is this the BabylonBee?
In an era where the use of unconventional forces is at a peak, we cut back on them.
Makes perfect sense. (Sarc)
“... lessons learned by British special operations forces there.”
ours too
said Maj. Gen. Patrick Roberson, deputy commander of the command at Fort Liberty in North Carolina. “You can teach a person about how to use a drone. But then to say, I want to have a software engineer program that drone, that’s something different.”
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They would NOT need a “software engineer” deploying with each Special Forces A team. As part of the development of FPV drone capabilities at the lowest tactical levels would be creation of ‘Apps’ that can be readily used at the tactical level to program a particular drone mission.
The writer’s language in that sentence isn’t very conclusive and now you say it also puts Americans there?
The brits just may be in close communication with their UKE counterparts.
“taking a lot of lessons learned out of the experience in Ukraine, mostly through the eyes of our U.K. special operations partners, who not only have done that in their formations, but they’ve also learned very quickly that they needed other elements of their joint force,”
...and in many cases the units are glorified homes for unwed mothers.
...and in many cases the units are glorified homes for unwed mothers.
It looks like I misread that quote I used on post 12, i was thinking it was the brits talking about their UKE counterparts.
“Forced to do more with less and learning from the war in Ukraine, U.S. special operations commanders are juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces...”
Shows how decayed and self-destructive the DC Globohomo Regime has become.
They admit military risks are going up around the world, but they cut real warfighting capability while giving ever greater funding to parasitic Regime client groups within the military.
I didn’t say the article puts Americans there, but if you don’t think they are fine.
It was your adding “ours too”.
The military manpower authorizations were reduced because potential recruits are unwilling to die for globalists.
The same is happening with police academy classes.
There is something about too many BoomerCons, where they doubt anything from Brandon or the media about the USA, but media and Brandon’s claims about Ukraine are totally believed.
Pretending significant numbers of USA troops have not been in Ukraine from the beginning is a typical example.
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