In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled EXCLUSIVE: "Internal DHS data reveals the 45+ U.S. cities that hundreds of thousands of migrants have flown into via the Biden administration's controversial "CHNV" mass parole program", thinden wrote: To: ransomnote; bitt; little jeremiah; generally; Melian; Cletus.D.Yokel
just listening to bannon interviewing eric prince on war room this am.
prince said something along these lines: “we have about the same number of flag officers in the MIL today as we had in WWII when we had > 22 million men under arms.”
“today, we have the same number of flag officers, but only have 1.4 million troops under arms”
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so my question is are the millions of illegal migrants from chyna, venezuala, haiti, guatemala, afghanistan, nigeria, somalia just here to VOTE?
how would our 1.4 MIL, many of whom are deployed overseas, stack up against the millions of invaders brandon has brought in country???
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EXCLUSIVE: “Internal DHS data reveals the 45+ U.S. cities that hundreds of thousands of migrants have flown into via the Biden administration’s controversial “CHNV” mass parole program”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4234966/posts?page=32#32
I think Chris Miller was giving us a heads up on the many changes to the battlespace - it's no longer strictly numbers on our side versus numbers on their side (oversimplified, but you get the idea). I recall thinking that Miller was relaying information we would need to understand in the not-so-distant-future; he wasn't merely explaining a policy decision.
The shift to Special Ops, making Special Ops independent of the rest of Mil, and what Chris Miller said then was signalling one of the shifts from our idea of conventional war, to more of what was then described by General FLynn and others as 5th genertion warfare.
We probably don't want conventional ground war in America, to the extent that it can be reduced in scope, limited or avoided. Police actions most resemble ground war now because our enemies are now posing military manuevers as 'riots' and we don't want to 'war' against wha looks like civilian protests. But actual ground war -we have no concept of not being able to go to the dentist because it's in a contested zone, or of the walls shaking during dinner, as missile impacts at a not-too-distant city are felt. The Ukraine provides a picture of what a largely conventional war looks like and does the city, the public, the infrastructure. Millions exiting contested zones, flattened electrical grid and key electronics etc.
We now have advanced technology and a focus on strategic use of fewer, highly qualified operators. We also have Cheyenne Mountain and Space Force. As an aside - I don't know what to make of it but National Guard members who are Space Force Guardians are being moved to Space Force, or so it is proposed. The Governor I read about (no link, sorry) was angry and elevating the issue to the public because National Guard is not traditionally 'claimed' by a military branch without permission of the Govenor. That change is to take place in 2025 (Trump's term?). Some of those National Guard Space Force (guardian) members were said to be in the NG for 30 years.
Satelites are no doubt tracking destinations of groups on foot. If they are being captured in large numbers, the MSM would not tell us about it. Paired with facial recognition, and 'smart plate' readers, and other really intrusive privacy robbing innovations, could, when in the White Hat's hands, make signficant strides in tracking. Those foreign invaders who are going through the rubber stamp procedure at the border are likely being recorded or otherwise identified.
I hate the facial recognition popping up everywhere - but when Trump takes office, that can help identify anyone buying gasoline, purchasing groceries etc. A lot of invaders are not in the system at all, but that's a marker in and of itself (group of 20 men, none of whom are identified, can in some circumstances prompt a look.)
The Special Ops warfare angle is too distant in my memory now to write about it beyond generaliztions. Just a note about obsolences versus modern warfare (5th Generation).
When I had to give a presentation on commodities for a class, I and my partner decided on tin or some other similar metal (scintillating topic - I forgot what I said about it). At some point during presentation preparation, after I kept mentioning the metal in relation to its importance to the military industrial complex, my parter patiently explained that tin was no longer of any relevance to the military as all modern weapons use superior alloys and other substances. I had it stuck in my brain beacause I received no 'update' over the years.
Our understanding of modern warfare (e.g., Chris Miller's explanation re Spec Ops) suggested that the idea of counting 'we have X million mil and they have X million' is obsolete, like my view of tin or the general use of bayonettes (better to have a bayonette than nothing - but doesn't help much if you never get close enough.
The same is true of fighter jets. (yeah - I like Jets. I gotta go find Foldy's jet meme she made the last time I said that). I used to watch dog fights starting with prop aircraft and as I got older, advanced to jet aircraft. And there certainly is still visual range and manuever fighting (THANKQ, AMERICAN MILITARY FIGHTER PILOTS!). But the most advanced aircraft destroy other aircraft long before they come into visual range.
I'm curious to go listen to Chris Miller again. Until I do, I'll just say combine examples like Chris Miller's Spec Ops troops with all the aspects of 5th generation warfare - 360 degrees of warfare in all geometric planes of contact, and then the idea of masses against masses becomes rather limiting (IMHO). Less direct engagement and you can keep yours out of harms way when using technology and denial of resources, instrusion of unwanted assets and yes - missiles etc.
I'll end with a quote from a Westpoint publication. It is referring to Spec Ops but note it indicates the overall change in strategy applicable to other branches of the mil.
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/what-the-new-vision-for-us-special-operations-gets-right-and-wrong/
In the words of Maier and Clarke, the purpose of the new strategy is to provide “a framework to guide [SOF’s] evolution from the world’s premier Counter Terrorism (CT) force into one optimally suited to support the Joint Force and the Nation as part of integrated deterrence.” (Integrated deterrence refers to the integration of military and other capabilities—including those of US allies and partners—across geography, domains, and the spectrum of conflict to prevent major attacks by US adversaries.) As these leaders acknowledge, for the past two decades, US special operations forces have been “primarily focused on countering terrorists, while our state adversaries sought to counter our capabilities and national interests.” Going forward, in their view, SOF need to adapt to this new reality.
Still generalizing here, but I believe we've shifted, "... to counter enemy capabilities and national interests.
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