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"In a nutshell, everything commandos do becomes harder. The North Koreans have better tools for intercepting communications than the Taliban, so troops have to enforce stricter radio silence...."

I understand the overall idea that it will be difficult to directly jump back into conventional warfare again if we need to, but some of these points seem rather demeaning to our true capabilities and methods of thought in any war. It reads as painfully weak thinking, unless it was purely to educate those that do not know.

One point is if we choose to knock AQ and Taliban or not, they certainly ARE NOT cavemen. They have been a ...well, (respectable) war fighter in at least an unfortunate manner for us. We will be failing ourselves and our fallen if we take a step back to write history as we were just fighting against an "easy, simple enemy". I do not think the enemy in any fight should ever be disrespected in capabilities.

Second, even well organized/trained/lucky "cavemen" can win a fight against a technologically advanced adversary any day. (Preaching to the choir)

Finally, to see both sides of it, I am not sure if we will have a true "conventional" war ever again. It really depends on how you define conventional. I believe we are attempting to lean on UW as the new method of conventional. Maybe its dreams to our leaders, or maybe they are right on the money. Or maybe its just another cluster as they try to conventionalize UW with over control.

Its safe to say the next fight may be different in methods than the last. Its just not okay, to say forget about the last one....

Various methods of war at the very least should always be considered and trained in order to win. Enough with this up and down nonsense.

After spending some time on the DMZ a few years ago, I do know that is some serious terrain to consider.(logistics and comms) God bless the American Soldiers that fought and died there in the Korean War. (Those that stood that line in Vietnam as well.)