{"id":56496,"date":"2014-11-17T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56496"},"modified":"2014-11-16T19:06:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T00:06:33","slug":"hagel-us-accelerating-training-of-iraqis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56496","title":{"rendered":"Hagel: US “accelerating” training of Iraqis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, a former infantry sergeant who should know better, told reporters that US advisers in Iraq are accelerating the training of Iraqi and peshmerga troops who will fight against ISIS\/ISISL\/Islamic State forces;<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the U.S. military is accelerating its efforts to train and advise Iraqi forces fighting Islamic State militants.<\/p>\n

Hagel said U.S. special operations troops in Iraq’s western Anbar province are getting an early start on the train-and-advise effort.<\/p>\n

Hagel said the effort began a few days ago. He did not provide details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have o idea how you do that, accelerate training, unless you add more hours to a day. You either train to a standard or you don’t. But, you know he’s a politician now, not a soldier, so he just says things people want to hear…no one expects his acceleration of training to work in anyone’s favor, well, except ISIS’ favor.<\/p>\n

Speaking of pretty words, Hagel went on to the Reagan Library from NTC and announced more shit he doesn’t understand;<\/p>\n

Hagel announced a “defense innovation initiative” that he likened to historic and successful campaigns during the Cold War to offset military advantages of U.S. adversaries. He described a “game-changing” strategy to sharpen American’s military edge in the face of budget impasses on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

“We must change the way we innovate, operate and do business,” he told a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.<\/p>\n

In a memo to Pentagon leaders in which be outlined the initiative, Hagel said the U.S. must not lose its commanding edge in military technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course we mustn’t lose our technological edge, but the Pentagon is throwing out the experienced officers and NCOs – the greatest benefit of a decade of war – to keep the head nodders, the officers and NCOs whose only real accomplishment was to keep themselves out of deployments for a decade of war.<\/p>\n

I guess that’s how you innovate – toss out the experience, and shift the focus of the forces to a part of the world where no one is shooting at anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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