{"id":29435,"date":"2012-04-09T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T12:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29435"},"modified":"2012-04-09T08:39:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T12:39:31","slug":"army-future-not-so-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29435","title":{"rendered":"Army future not so “Strong”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the competition between the military services, the Army is worried that they’re going to lose their edge on the battlefield to the high tech, long distance engagement capability of the Navy and the Air Force says retired ArmyMaj. Gen. Robert Scales in the Washington Times<\/a> today;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an opportunity to take this experience in Iraq and Afghanistan and really achieve dominance on the ground, just like the Air Force achieved with the F-22 and F-35 and the Navy has achieved with its modern fleet of carriers,\u201d said retired ArmyMaj. Gen. Robert Scales.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut for whatever reason, the Army is going to go into the future with no major platform modernization that I can see. It\u2019s entirely likely that my grandchildren, should they choose to go in the Army, will be fighting with equipment I was using when I was a captain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya mean like when I was a young sergeant and still using cold weather gear left over from the Korean War and weapons that had been made during Vietnam? Facing a 1990s threat with 1960s equipment? That’s the result of having an administration that hates the military unless they can make the administration look good. Like Jimmy Carter tried to do in an election year with his Desert One operation – but the equipment that the administration didn’t want to maintain failed them. <\/p>\n

This administration has been fairly lucky thus far, since the operations that they hoped would make them look good didn’t depend so much on equipment as they did on people. Still they had equipment failure on the bin Laden operation that has been fairly well ignored because the overall operation succeeded.<\/p>\n

You’d think that the failure of that one helicopter would give the administration pause, but it hasn’t so far. It’s much sexier to stand off from a few thousand feet, or a few thousand miles, and drop bombs. Much less sexier to fight with soldiers who have to hold terrain in order to make an operation successful. Fighting with soldiers requires losses and personnel costs which, in turn, costs votes at ballot box. But just wait until military members discover that their future in the Army doesn’t look so bright and we have to take Cat IV during a relative peace time like we did during the Carter Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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