{"id":28244,"date":"2012-01-09T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28244"},"modified":"2012-01-09T08:35:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:35:21","slug":"hoping-for-peace-is-not-a-defense-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28244","title":{"rendered":"Hoping for peace is not a defense plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times writes today that “Obama\u2019s war plan pins hopes on peace<\/a>“. Yeah, but peace never happens when you need it most. Scarborough quotes my old brigade commander from the 3rd Infantry Division, “Jungle” George Joulwan;<\/p>\n

Retired Army Gen. George A. Joulwan, who was supreme allied commander in Europe from 1993 to 1997, told The Times that new military strategies have a poor record of predictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been through all this before,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is about the fourth time that we have downsized and reorganized our military forces. Unfortunately, it never is predictive of what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, when Gen. Joulwan took NATO command in 1993, national security officials said the Clinton administration planned to focus forces on Asia. Ground forces were reduced significantly, and the emphasis was on massive air and naval power.<\/p>\n

A short time later, Gen. Joulwan was sending 60,000 troops, 20,000 of them American, into the Balkans in Operation Joint Endeavor to stop Serbian atrocities in Bosnia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWhat I argued for [while on active duty] is the capability to conduct five simultaneous, regional contingencies because I think that\u2019s the strategic environment we\u2019re in. And I do see an enlarged role for special forces and CIA-type operatives. But we do need to be able to deter conflict as well as to fight and win. And that\u2019s the challenge for the new national security strategy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, look around. Iran is conducting operations in the Persian Gulf, an exercise on it’s Afghan border<\/a> while Ahmadinejad is visiting Venezuela<\/a>. North Korea is bound to flex<\/a> some muscle soon to prove they’re still a hermit kingdom. Putin has problems<\/a> in his fiefdom. Pakistan is facing<\/a> internal disorder. The African National Congress is losing it’s grip<\/a> in South Africa. China says it’s no threat<\/a>, so you know that means they’re a threat.<\/p>\n

But I’m sure that Hope and Change bullshit will work much better on the world stage than it did on our economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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