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The article is a choppy patchwork of doctrinal jargon and liberal nightmare. The authors make a quasi-legal case for military action and then apply the Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 to the situation. They write bloodlessly that “once it is put into play, Americans will expect the military to execute without pause and as professionally as if it were acting overseas.” They claim that “the Army cannot disappoint the American people, especially in such a moment,” not pausing to consider that
The vision is hard to take seriously. As retired ArmyBrig. Gen. Russell D. Howard, a former professor at West Point, observed earlier in his career, “I am a colonel, colonels write a lot of crazy stuff, but no one listens to colonels, so I don’t see the problem.
Originally posted by mytheroy
All I got to say is BRING IT ON, I say we beat em to the punch, and just storm Washington,
but why four years from now? seems like barry wants it sooner?
edit on 10-8-2012 by mytheroy because: (no reason given)
This farcical vision......
It’s a cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario.....
The vision is hard to take seriously......
Originally posted by mytheroy
All I got to say is BRING IT ON, I say we beat em to the punch, and just storm Washington,
but why four years from now? seems like barry wants it sooner?
edit on 10-8-2012 by mytheroy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Asktheanimals
Can they try any harder to make it sound not credible?:
This farcical vision......
It’s a cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario.....
The vision is hard to take seriously......
And senior military staff spend most of their time planning for events that could never happen. They spend most of their days mulling over take-out menus and playing on SNES simulators.
You can cover this with "don't take it seriously" stickers all you like but the fact remains this is a possible future contingency they are planning for. It may not even take until 2016 to happen.
And I just love how they single out tea partiers when it's far more likely to begin with riots in the inner cities.