[bra]

"Meanwhile, everyone seems either to have criticized or belatedly praised “the plan”; but so far no one seems to quite know how 250,000 brave American, British, and Australian young men and women in the field are actually pulling it off.

That part of the equation is something only a soldier that has been there and done that understands. It has always been typical of American soldiers. The "Plan" is a painful and scary thing during its development. The anxiety of execution is even more emotional.

The inovation, intelligence, excellent training, strength of character, and courage of the American soldier is what endures.

The ability to know, understand, and faithfully execute the commander's intent at the lowest level of command and control is what separates the American forces from the rest. Armies that are used to enforce tyranny can never give the soldier this kind of flexibility and responsibility. It only exists within Armies that defend Freedom and Liberty.

DE OPPRESSO LIBER

[BartMan1]

Victor Davis Hansen bump...;

[Aric2000]

Agreed,

A war plan never survives first contact with the enemy, and when that happens a Tyrants army loses it's cohesion because there is no initiative.

When an Army like ours, knows the plan, and of course the plan begins to come apart a little bit, our men take the intiative to make the plan work, they see what their little bit is, and come through for the rest of the army.

Our initiative and professionalism are what makes the plan work.

The Generals do not micromanage, because they don't have to, that is what a chain of command is for.

We tell our units their mission parameters, and the units handle the specifics.

A tyrants army is not like this, and therefore will fall to our forces EVERY time.

Intitiative, motivation, professionalism and training, our military has it, Most others do not.

Our morale is usually MUCH higher as well, Our military is motivated and knows what's right, there is no question that what they do is right, we are not imperialist and our military knows this as well.

They knew the job, they knew the reasons for the job, and they have done and are doing the job. In a very spectacular way, I might add.

[aristeides]

Armies that are used to enforce tyranny can never give the soldier this kind of flexibility and responsibility. It only exists within Armies that defend Freedom and Liberty.

Why do you think the German army was so effective, especially on the tactical level, in World Wars One and Two?

[TopQuark]

Armies that are used to enforce tyranny can never give the soldier this kind of flexibility and responsibility. It only exists within Armies that defend Freedom and Liberty.

Bautifully stated, thank you.

The Soviets, while countring and measuring our weapons from their interlligence reports, missed this very central point you make: they could not have possibly won against an Army of people that are not only free but have been raised with freedom in their veins. Such people think, make decisions, execute, cooperate --- function in all aspects far better than Ivans that have for centuries kneeled before the tsars and commissars.

You want an army like ours --- become a society of free yet responsible individuals. You want our prosperity --- free your enterpreneures from beaurocracy and unberable taxation.

I guess, for most it is much easier to succum to envy.