I fear we are losing the institutional memory of having faced enemies that are capable of defeating us on the battlefield. We have not faced such an enemy since the summer/winter of 1950 on the Korean Peninsula. The names of Task Force Smith, the 1st Battles of Taejon and Seoul, the Pusan perimeter, the near destruction of the 2nd Infantry Division at Kunu-Ri the annihillation of Task Force Faith, the 120 mile retreat of 8th Army and the 80 mile withdrawal of the 1st Marine Division from the Chosen Resovoir seem but distant memories. The cultural marxists now in charge of the Obama administration are indulging in the sort of social experimentation SURE to result in defeat or serious setback against an enemy capable of projecting the sort of battle field power that would lead to the battlefield reverses that the US Armed Forces suffered at Kasserine Pass, the opening phases of the Ardennnes Offensive, the Hurtegen Forest, the Rapido River, the US Strategic Bombing Campaign, the 1st Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, (Savo Island) or the Rangers at Cisterna in Italy. Over a decade of facing an enemy that is only capable of terrorist/guerilla warfare that can be largely countered by elite specops units has us fighting the last war, and would not be suitable against any enemy capable of projecting real battlefield conventional power.
Only a feckless, unserious and irresponsible nation, enamored of the current crop of combat chicks in almost every one of todays action movies, that is oblivious to the possibility of facing an enemy that IS capable of inflicting these sorts of battle field defeats would contemplate such a disastrous notion as placing women into the first team of ground combat units whose task is to close with, engage and destroy similar enemy units. Sheer and utter madness!!!!
“The cultural marxists now in charge of the Obama administration are indulging in the sort of social experimentation SURE to result in defeat or serious setback against an enemy capable of projecting the sort of battle field power that would lead to the battlefield reverses that the US Armed Forces suffered at....”
Amen DMZFrank! (note: I served on the DMZ in Korea too)