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Everything i wanted to say but being active duty my mouth must stay shut. Thank you.Do you understand military tactics? Our hands were tied. We barely used 1/4 of our Air Force or other technical items that makes us superior. Given no red tape or us having to hold back, we can turn the Middle East into an empty parking lot within 48hrs.
For every 1 jet Russia has, we have fifty. For every 1 tank they have, we have thirty. You win wars against the U.S. via the news and international perceptions. Why do you think both the Taliban and the North Vietnamese use guerilla tactics and hide amongst the public and used them as human shields? The minute CNN shows the dismembered leg of some child that was mistakenly caught in a drone strike, the American public gets a conscience and calls the Military monsters and we have to hold off. We are then relegated to fighting the war on their term. Why do you think that Cleric in the UK can openly say that the U.S. and the West are criminals and that we deserve to die? We have to live by this higher moral obligation and our enemies know that. They can capture, torture, rape, and murder our troops; but the minute you interrogate an enemy combatant, we are called monsters. Did some of it go too far? Yes, it did. But when you have people who have information and they aren’t afraid or scared of spending the rest of their lives in a black hole to protect the cause, you have to have leverage. This isn’t Call of Duty, war and warfare is extremely ugly. Leaders have to knowingly make calls and decisions where they know that their orders will cause some of their men and women to either get harms or die. It is part of the job, and most if not all of the service members who go to warzones know this. The American public has this false pretense of what war and warfare really entails.
I don’t think you guys underestimate what the US military is fully capable of. We have learned from WW1 and WW2. We will overwhelm you. Why do you think we have bases all over the world? Why do you think we are so heavy in Europe and Asia? Why do you think the Navy is refocusing manpower in Asia and Southwest Asia!
Speak on what you know, don’t assume.
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