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Originally Posted by UWOA
Needless to say, they didn't like my advice that would have them doing that for fifteen to twenty years before engaging with guerrilla forces.
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I think that is an excellent point too. UW is a strategic goal, that has to be emplemnted at the national level. It's "The Long Con". At this moment in time (since Reagan), I don't think national leadership can think past the ends of their noses. They don't see the value of UW or that it is too risky (I won't go into the SF maturity level thing as we have beaten that to death elsewhere).
The roots that we need to get back to are secrecy and I'm not talking about being on CNN with a great big bushy beard and saying your name is SFC Steve (last name omitted to make yourself tacticool). I'm talking NO press. No mention of missions. Interviews at USASOC level only, that tell the world nothing.
I got to do things in places (non-combat places) that I thought were really cool and it was never talked about, barely in the team room! You could say possibly UW related you could even say possibly DA related. The point being was that it was real and we felt like THIS IS WHAT SF IS ABOUT!