{"id":60045,"date":"2015-05-28T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60045"},"modified":"2015-05-28T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T13:45:09","slug":"army-trains-for-next-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60045","title":{"rendered":"Army trains for &#8220;next war&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/article22344495.html\">Kansas City Star<\/a> reports that the Army, the 1st Division specifically, at Fort Riley, has begun training for the next war by getting back to the business of fighting traditional enemies like the Russians or the North Koreans. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou hope it wouldn\u2019t be World War III, but you have to prepare for the worst,\u201d said Lt. Gen. Robert B. Brown, commanding general of the Army\u2019s Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth. \u201cWe need to be ready to play against the pro teams, not just the amateurs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a paradigm shift for the Army,\u201d Livsey said. \u201cWith Iraq and Afghanistan, it was all about COIN \u2014 counterinsurgency. We still need to train for that. But we also have to get back to bread-and-butter skills such as precise artillery, precise gunnery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fort Riley officials say decisive-action training blends yesterday\u2019s emphasis on battlefield prowess with the people skills required of troops more recently focused on counterinsurgency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I wish the Army would finish this war, while they&#8217;re preparing for the next war. Ronald Reagan was able to fight the &#8220;low intensity conflicts&#8221; of the 80s while preparing for the Soviet hordes simultaneously, but I have my doubts that this crowd can do it the way that they&#8217;re slashing training funds and compensation packages while staffing their social programs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Star reports that the Army, the 1st Division specifically, at Fort Riley, has &hellip; <a title=\"Army trains for &#8220;next war&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60045\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army trains for &#8220;next war&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}