I watched the debate between former General Scott Perry in Pennsylvania who's going for his 4th term in Congress and Janelle Stelson who makes no bones about being an absolute beginner. He was SO negative about "today's military". He didn't seem to worry about current morale when he was lambasting them for not focusing more on "training …
I watched the debate between former General Scott Perry in Pennsylvania who's going for his 4th term in Congress and Janelle Stelson who makes no bones about being an absolute beginner. He was SO negative about "today's military". He didn't seem to worry about current morale when he was lambasting them for not focusing more on "training for combat duty". Although I myself lean toward being a pacifist, I wondered about this combat emphasis. I think that a lot of military IS now about remote combat and intelligence ops. He still seems stuck in that belief that my parents had in the 1960s (although he's my generation, which makes it ironic) that "we had to go through tough things and so should you." And that informs his attitude about voting for military vets' relief, student loan issues, etc.
Anyway, as I looked at your points, Dick, I thought about that debate and how down on the military the ex General was. But, then again, Perry is the ultimate MAGA Republican so of course there's no question of where he stands.
Perry is a military dinosaur. He has the same mindset as the generals in Vietnam. They were fighting a conventional war when they should've been fighting a counterinsurgency war. Unfortunately our military has a long history of training for the "last war" we fought instead of for modern war and the modern battlefield which as you stated is comprised of remote combat and intelligence ops.
I watched the debate between former General Scott Perry in Pennsylvania who's going for his 4th term in Congress and Janelle Stelson who makes no bones about being an absolute beginner. He was SO negative about "today's military". He didn't seem to worry about current morale when he was lambasting them for not focusing more on "training for combat duty". Although I myself lean toward being a pacifist, I wondered about this combat emphasis. I think that a lot of military IS now about remote combat and intelligence ops. He still seems stuck in that belief that my parents had in the 1960s (although he's my generation, which makes it ironic) that "we had to go through tough things and so should you." And that informs his attitude about voting for military vets' relief, student loan issues, etc.
Anyway, as I looked at your points, Dick, I thought about that debate and how down on the military the ex General was. But, then again, Perry is the ultimate MAGA Republican so of course there's no question of where he stands.
Perry is a military dinosaur. He has the same mindset as the generals in Vietnam. They were fighting a conventional war when they should've been fighting a counterinsurgency war. Unfortunately our military has a long history of training for the "last war" we fought instead of for modern war and the modern battlefield which as you stated is comprised of remote combat and intelligence ops.