If there were 7800, Highly trained commando, who have been training in the northern part of the US. for the last 3 and a half years, and they were para. dropped outside of the hot spots in IRAQ, and the president didn't have a qlue, do you think that it would make a difference in the out come of the war, and would these men be considered mercineries or ?
2006-12-21 21:18:25 · 5 answers · asked by schneider2294@sbcglobal.net 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
each man highly trained in the arts of hand to hand combat, weapons, demo, and tactical warfare?
2006-12-21 21:25:29 · update #1
Sounds like another faction to me. Too many already.
4th gen war is different. Despite a long history of engagements, US citizens seem unwilling to grasp that this is a different kind of action, winnable, but not in the same way as classic 2d or 3d generation wars. I'm not sure whether to be more aggravated at the "bomb hell out of them" crowd or the "we can't win against guerrillas" bunch. This sort of fight needs troops, but it is mostly political.
2006-12-22 02:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you had read "April Morning" (by Howard Fast) in your 7th grade you would learn that the character Adam Cooper - the boy depicted in the 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord - was the first to engage in "guerilla warfare" when he joined a group of civilians to mow down the Redcoats. It was not called "guerilla warfare" then; but it was the AMERICANS who originated and pioneered "hit & run" attacks now a regular feature in Iraq, Afghan. This is the MO when facing a vastly superior force like US troops in Iraq.
Your strategy will bog down after its initial success - you win a battle but not the war. Iraq is unwinnable because it is NOT a Germany, NOT a Japan - both countries successfully reconstructed. Iraq is more like Yugoslavia cobbled from the different ethnic/religious groups from the Ottoman Empire - Iraq will disintegrate like the Slavic states when the muslim warring factions there carve out their own territory to rule.
How long is America prepared to stay the course? 5, 10 years? No President will pour in billions of USD year after year into an unwinnable war. Americans do not need another Mogadishu, another Vietnam.
2006-12-22 06:33:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it wouldn't make a difference. The biggest problem, for our armed forces in Iraq, is that the enemies and allies ALL look like Iraqis. You can't shoot everyone you see, but you can't trust anyone. So you are saying that these guys have psychic vision or something?
2006-12-22 05:30:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No for the war is against all Iraqis, and unless you wish to kill them all, it is hopeless. You cannot kills ideas. Bush does not care though as he is not there to win, but to plunder instead.
2006-12-22 05:28:10 · answer #4 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-22 05:24:59 · answer #5 · answered by crusinthru 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋