11-28-2013, 04:29 AM
The reality is that no nation in their right mind is going to intentionally provoke the US into a conventional war, where our insane overmatch in logistics, air superiority, force projection, carrier battle groups, rapid deployment forces, and mech forces will grind any conventional force into a shell of its former self.
Every nation that wants to do us harm or cause problems for us that involves hostilities knows that asymmetric warfare is the only real option they have. That means we have to get our hands dirty with smaller, more flexible forces with strict ROE that doesn't level civilizations like we did in WWII.
That means Special Operations Forces as the main effort, with support from whoever they need, but the Pentagon doesn't want to swallow that, because there is nowhere near the money in it that there is by sending in boat and plane loads of big green pickle machine entry-level kids, with poorly-trained junior leaders for the most part, led by officers who were selected not based on their death-dealing prowess and martial breeding from the creme of all candidates, but subject to totally non-related arbitrary and social engineering protocols that not even the selecting bodies comprehend.
In this culture, there simply does not exist the capacity to employ an improved cartridge among riflemen. Only a few soldiers in sniper billets have the training to do it, as the DM's still don't seem to have a formal training and evaluation program that I'm aware of. There were some initial attempts to get a standardized POI, but the force has devolved in many ways when it comes to training.
For SAWs and GPMG's, there has been a somewhat solid program in place for training and qualification dating back decades and decades.
Every nation that wants to do us harm or cause problems for us that involves hostilities knows that asymmetric warfare is the only real option they have. That means we have to get our hands dirty with smaller, more flexible forces with strict ROE that doesn't level civilizations like we did in WWII.
That means Special Operations Forces as the main effort, with support from whoever they need, but the Pentagon doesn't want to swallow that, because there is nowhere near the money in it that there is by sending in boat and plane loads of big green pickle machine entry-level kids, with poorly-trained junior leaders for the most part, led by officers who were selected not based on their death-dealing prowess and martial breeding from the creme of all candidates, but subject to totally non-related arbitrary and social engineering protocols that not even the selecting bodies comprehend.
In this culture, there simply does not exist the capacity to employ an improved cartridge among riflemen. Only a few soldiers in sniper billets have the training to do it, as the DM's still don't seem to have a formal training and evaluation program that I'm aware of. There were some initial attempts to get a standardized POI, but the force has devolved in many ways when it comes to training.
For SAWs and GPMG's, there has been a somewhat solid program in place for training and qualification dating back decades and decades.