[Grampa Dave]

Our new USMC is awesome!

Driving home from a visit to my grandkids, I heard on the radio an interesting comment from a retired general who was a tanker colonel in DSI.

He said that the high casualties take by the Iraqis in DSI could be laid at the feet of the Russians re their training of the Iraqis. They convinced the Iraqi officers that any variance of their great master plan was reason for defeat and should be handed very harshly like shoot anyone who show any creativity and ability to analyze and solve a problem.

This general said that his tankers would find Iraqi tanks semi hidden. His tanker officers would roll up within range for the US tanks and out of range for the Iraqis. Then his tankers would start firing. They would destroy one tank and swing to the next Iraqi tank and destroy it. His tankers would repeat this process until all of the Iraqi tanks were destroyed or disabled.

The Iraqi tankers knew that the American tanks were out of range for the Iraqi tanks. They knew that Iraqi tanks around them were getting shredded. Yet they held ground until their tank was destroyed.

They captured a few Iraqi survivors and asked them why they stayed. They said that they were trained to stay and to follow the Russian tactics even in if their tanks were destroyed. If they ran their tanks out of range, they would have been shot.

[Stavka2]

Number one, that was the Soviet Generals, many of whom were fired and are now advisors...or why do you think they are seeking employment? Secondly, read up on Arab mentality and the shoot any creativity fits into that (my profile: Why Arabs Loose Wars) because creativity to arabs means ambition, ambition means competition and threat.