Quote:
|
Originally Posted by mffjm8509
Intel is only half of the issue. Intel is bottom driven. Targeting is easy based on internally devleoped information. There are plenty of "good" local nationals that are willing to come and give us actionable information for the better of thier communities. Getting "big army" to commit to prosecuting these targets is another thing, or even worse is getting them to process them through the detention system.
It is an odd operational environment, and one we dont train guys to operate in at the school house. We are fighting an unconventional war, within a conventional commanders battlespace. That means, that we as USSF can NOT prosecute our own targets without the blessing of local TF and Brigade Commanders.
That is our daily challenge.
mp
|
I am shocked and dismayed to hear that we know who the terrorists are, but are prohibited from engaging them by conventional commanders.
That is so short-sighted as to be ridiculous. How many troops for the unit has to be sent home before the chain of command takes serious measures, even if it favors SF?
While we may not want a full blown Phoenix program, it would seem prudent to at least drag the terrorists and their supporters (underground/auxillary, not philosophical) into custody, if not pop them.
This news is something I had not heard, and does not bode well for us.
TR
__________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
|