Posted on 04/05/2017 7:32:36 PM PDT by BBell
Sun Tzu (IIRC): “when you are weak, appear strong; when you are strong, appear weak”.
Well that makes it all better then fricin idiot
But our weakness is our strength. The more pathetic and incapable of defending ourselves we are, the more the world will like and respect us. Right Obama?
We could’ve had 2 million men ready to fight in one day when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and would not have stopped it...
Same with the WTC...
Centralized sneak attacks can’t be prevented by having a lot of troops...Only prior intel can stop something like that...
Smarten up and stop the name calling...it beliitles you...
agreed, it appears to be the strategy
I believe that this is the time of year that all of the participants start telling anyone who will listen that they are about a buck two eighty from shuttin' the doors.
Got the same thing earlier this week saying that only 70% of the Air Force planes are operational.
Think I read something a couple of weeks ago about all of the Navy's ships being just about rusted through the bottom and ready to sink...yada, yada, yada.
I think this is pretty much a yearly phenomenon.
20 year olds now are safe space hiding girly men.
It's not only our military that is not prepared to fight.
Wow. I guess $600 Billion a year doesn't go as far as it used to....
Does anyone at all grasp the idea you don’t divulge information like this?
By tomorrow this time, this should be an ex Army General.
Granted we aren’t likely to have forces landing on our shores, but this is just childish talk.
Hell, I’m not in the armed forces, but you’d never catch me making a statement like this in public.
You go up the chain of command discretely.
If you think you have a very pressing problem, then contact the President. Don’t be surprised if you lose your job, but you’ll have done your duty.
We could also work with Russia, Israel, China, Japan and most EU countries and nuke everything within fallout zone to get rid of 99.99 percent of the filth making the world suck.
The local cops can kneecap the remaining islamo filth.
Invade Brando Island (atoll), arrest Hussein, put him in Gitmo’ for Islamic treason.
I live in a deep south state and we have a lot of 20 year old manly men still.
The US Army has a grand tradition of getting caught flat footed.
It took 11 full months before the US Army was able to commence offensive operations in World War II. (The Marines were able to commence offensive operations in only 8 months, but arguable weren’t quite ready. And that’s with the country having had a 2 year lead time before hostilities commenced.
In Korea, they did a little better, but they were able to call up a largely veteran reserve force that didn’t require extensive training, and it only took about 3 months to respond.
Although a few engineering units saw action more quickly, it was almost a full year from declaration of war to offensive ground action in World War I.
“The only time we would need a force as immediate as one day would be a homeland invasion here...”
We have already been invaded, albeit very slowly.
“Does anyone at all grasp the idea you don’t divulge information like this?
By tomorrow this time, this should be an ex Army General.”
I think this guy was trying to shake the money tree.
That’s what I was thinking too.....damn!
When America dials 911, the Marines answer the phone.
There are 4 complete Marine Expeditionary Units in the water right now. All are combined arms, and full Battalion Landing Teams.
They can land anywhere in the world in 24 hours or less and deliver more violence than any armed force in the world.
Bingo.... NORK bait ?
Semper Fi Jarhead!
Any of you ever heard of disinformation?
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