You are saying what my husband is describing perfectly.
He’s really frustrated with the way we fight modern war. In his humble opinion, we need to go back to WWII. You go over as a group and you stay until the job is done.
We are wasting so much time and money with these rotations. My husband spends the first three months trying to undo the last guy’s issues and set a new standard. He spends the last three months getting his guys ready to come home and setting up the next guy for success.
The American people have no friggin’ idea how much it costs to rotate two battalions.
The military machine has turned into a bureaucratic nightmare. We get things done in *spite* of this.
Local contacts and relationships that take six months to build go up in smoke when the next personality takes your place.
With this system, we can FIGHT a war really well. We keep our troops from getting exhausted. It’s not bad for that purpose.
But nation-building takes stability. Our system is not set up for this.
That’s why it’s so wasteful and time-consuming. Our military is being asked to do something that it’s not (and never has been) designed to do.
I meant brigades, not battalions.