Because that Hearts and Minds stuff worked so well in Vietnam.
Department of Offense needed?
We’ve had this attitude since Korea.
Korea - stalemate and technically still ongoing.
Vietnam - loss
Gulf War I - stalemate with Iraq
Gulf War II - twenty years of occupation that ended in a humiliating withdrawal
America has two problems with its wars: 1) It is extremely adverse to U.S. casualties, and 2) It is extremely adverse to enemy civilian casualties.
And Greenfield is right, we think that once we occupy a country, they’ll fall in love with the American Dream and become allies. That hasn’t worked since WWII.
Self serving Politicians run the Military. They don’t care about winning.
We haven’t won since politicians started setting the ROE in the Korean War. We have sidelined the ones who know how to win for posturing clowns who can’t find their left foot. “You can’t bomb Haiphong!” Bull crap! Short wars saves lives on both sides. We pay our General to run wars, let them earned their pay. Meanwhile, sit down and STFU.
What the generals have to say really doesn’t matter much. Ike and MacArthur were successful mainly because FDR had his head on straight. That’s where the buck stopped.
WW2 would have ended very differently had FDR been wishy-washy and open to compromise.
FDR: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan must be defeated.
Contrast that with:
George W. Bush: Islam is peace.
Joe Biden: Cease-fire in Gaza, please.
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You start with the hearts and minds right after the enemy has been destroyed. Then, they will listen. On a side note, Sec Def Austin looked like he hated being at the Army Navy Game.
Parents change the minds of fools with warnings first, punishments next, and rebuilding the relationships after the fools admit to their foolishness and sincerely repent of ever doing it again.
States need to break the will of the foolishness of their enemies the same way.
"A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left." Ecclesiastes 10:2
Money everyone is in on the money war brings to the table and in thier private bank accounts
Once you understand the NK geography and doctrine of the enemy you realize two things: American tactics and capabilities could dominate in the South. We hadn't a hope in hell in the terrain in the North at least not unless we were willing to fight a massed up close and personal counterinsurgency in the mountains, a lesson we already learned in the South Pacific Island camapaign in WWII.
WWII was a total victory because the aim was to defeat the Nazi occupation. If our goal was democracy in Poland then we were ignominiously defeated.
There is little that is beneath the leftists, and we’re not going to defeat them by trying to spare their feelings.
When countries have nuclear arsenals, they are not invaded.
The Socialist Marxist Dems don’t want the American people to win so the DNC can get control.
A military member’s competence is inversely proportional to his/her (most definitely NOT its) political correctness. Take a look at our laughable military DEI “leaders”. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Who was the sage who said, “Get ‘em by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow” ?
The enemy’s will to fight must be destroyed. Not just their means to fight.