[ladtx]

A very good assessment of the way we fight.

...the mainstream media missed it, to the point that it virtually ignored training as a key element of the combat situation,...

"Train the way you fight", has been a motto over the last couple of decades of the US military. It has always paid off.

[7thson]

And one thing the author missed, the reporters have no concept of, yet all of us who have served know about. The war colleges. The military sends out officers - captains and colonels - to these war colleges to learn what, where, when, why, and how to fight the next enemy or enemies. We go over old strategies and cover new ones. Even this campaign, some things have gone wrong, and the war colleges will go over this and pick it apart. Correct me if I am wrong, but is England the only other army that does this?