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Originally posted by Solid
How much has the US' war-fighting posture shifted since the Cold War?
Solid
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1996.
I am at a U.S. Army Senior School.
I am diagramming the Soviet MRD, in the approach formation. My map is the Fulda Gap area of Germany.
I do this (more or less, may be a Regiment, may be on the defense) for nine exercises.
On the 10th exercise, we do a Central American scenario which dates back to the early to mid-80s.
I ask my instructors why we are spending so much time on a defunct opponent from more than seven years ago, in an area where we will not likely fight in our lifetimes. Why can't we at least do Desert Storm, which was only five years old?
I am told by my instructor (an Armor officer) to shut up and color, and Kumbayah.
This is our conventional Army education. They are probably still doing the same thing.
TR