Evolution of weapons in modern warfare.

[LR1955]

All true.

However we have too many, especially in the officer ranks, who like the big wars as the metrics are better for OERs. Real World as we have been doing over the last 20 years, and that we are up against insurgents rather than a massive military, has made it tough on the career officer career. It is much like the Army coming off of the Civil War with its big, glorious battles then having to go off to the west to fight Indians. Instead of "civilized" war, they faced ambush attacks, long patrols, and isolation from civilized society.

Lets ask this question once more.

What was your CMF?

Of your thirty years, how many were with the Regulars, Guard, and or Reserve?

Your rank on retirement -- just out of interest.

So you are saying that the Infantry doesn't get ambushed? I bet there are a bunch of Infantrymen who would debate that statement.

And lets get back to your wannabee statement about discarding your firearms and going to knifes if you are in a CQB situation in order to avoid fratricide. That is a change to tactics if I have ever heard of one.

You are following the typical pattern of a former military member who was CS or CSS and who has problems that are beyond the scope of this forum to assist.

First you utter a complete lie in order to try to impress people. When called out on it, you do not respond.

Then you go to the "I was in for thirty years". Maybe you were. However it doesn't mean that anything you say is correct or even the truth. Remember that you started this with a lie that you never responded to when called out.

Then you attempt to start a conversation about something you obviously know nothing about, either from a historical or a material perspective, hoping to get people into conversation. When your arguments on tactics and equipment are immediately shot down by people who DO know what they are talking about -- like Stan and LRRP52, you fall back on the tried and failed 'lets condemn the Officer Corps' tactic. That doesn't go over with us either because frankly, we don't care what our ranks were in the military. I will say right now -- after thirty years your view of the Officer Corps is that of an immature PV-2. Normally they grow out of it by the time they hit PFC.

I recall the era when the strategic thinkers thought that we would never fight another huge conventional ground war. That was about two years before we went into Desert Shield. And it seems that we may just be going against the Russians in Europe again.

LR55