[USAF80]

Generals are always fighting the last war. The “drone war” is what we have now. It’s clean, surgical and only the “enemy” gets killed.

If you look at new weapons system aquisitions a lot is for unmanned aircraft. My buddy sent me a pic today about the unmanned resupply helicopter.

House to house, nah. Keep a drone overhead 24/7. They have to come out to get supplies then you can pick them off.

Massive tank battles, with who? Storming beaches, hadn’t happened since Korea.

Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, forgotten already.

[ExTxMarine]

Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, forgotten already.

So too forgotten where the "storming beaches" lessons of WWII - UNTIL Korea. And in Korea these "forgotten" lessons were indispensable in the reversal of the plight of that theater of combat.

If you did not know, Saddam Hussein specifically left a bulk of his forces on the beachfront of Kuwait because he was afraid that the U.S. Marines would be making such a beach landing. The threat thereof helped make the route of his forces that much easier.

Again, killing people from afar does not change the overall climate of the people of the land we are bombing! That takes boots on the ground and forces to counteract the stupid thoughts and teachings of the offspring of those people we already killed. Otherwise, we will have to go back in 15-20 years to do more drone killings. Then another 15-20, and then another. It is a cycle sure to repeat itself if we DON'T have boots on the ground.