I know not what these grey delta things you speak of are. But, yeah I see where you're coming from.
I think, Iraq and Afghanistan both should be turned over to SOCOM piecemeal. I think we should realign our current force structure to be ready for the next conflict and not fighting the last one. We still have a heavy preponderance of armored and mechanized heavy units that were built at great cost to fight a land war in Europe. We can do so much more, with far less. We have proven that time and again. I think the first thing we should look at is bringing back the mindset of national defense, over foreign intervention. I'm a hawk and an alpha type guy, I don't mind looking for, or picking a fight. That's why guys like me serve as enlisted grunts, and shouldn't always be the same guys you elect. You civilian types are supposed to be keeping us on a chain some place well fed on scraps :) The total force structure for me would be based around the idea of security at home, borders, imports, immigration, and strength abroad, continuing to support our allies, while at the same time being a force for peace in the regions of conflict where our heaviest interests lie. The new ground force structure should be based around the idea of the brigade combat team, vice the idea of the division and the corps. Smaller, lighter faster. An armored bct could be something like a tank battalion, a mech infantry (stryker/wheeled) battalion and a crunchy (light, Foot or thin skin vehicle, assault troops) battalion. A medium BCT would be based around the stryker, and maybe include air assault elemnts. A light BCT would contain airborne and air assault battalions, and a heavier wheeled/towed air land capable battalion. Obvoulsy we would retain amfibious assault elements, light and mechanized, in the Marine Corps. I think one of the most well designed fighting forces in the world. These units should be regionally focused, with things like language and cultural familiarity being the norm. We need to cut the tail. Our tooth to tail ratio, or the number of shooters vs. the number of paper pushers, is disgusting. We need to contract less out. We have cooks in the Army, why are civilians feeding soldiers? Doing their laundry? The new Air Force is one that should be organized around the realistic defesnse of this country, and the support of our ground forces. For too long we have showered the Air Force with billions of dollars they don't need, while men in the trenches were freezing and starving. We need a limited air power projection capability. That means a small number of the expensive long distant radar resissdent aircraft. We need a large air lift capability, our current force of transport aircraft is in good health, and we have some excellent birds and crews, one of the best parts of working with the AF is the C-130 and C-17 crews. We need more of them, I doubt we could do a division sized airborne insertion just from lack of Aircraft. We need a vastly improved close air support system in the Air Force. The A-10 jockeys are my heros. They are the guys that will roll in low and slow and save lives. Unfortunately they aren't very well respected within the pilot community and their budget suffers with their old low tech slow aircraft. We need to drastically downsize our medium attack and strike and bomber fleet. Like crazy, just start removing them from service. We need enough to control the airspace over two fights at a time. We have enough to control the airspace pretty much everywhere. Too many fighter wings out there with huge budgets that don't make sense in the modern world. The navy. Tough one. We need to maintain an appropraite number of carrier air groups. I don't have enough knowledge to say how many that number is. I do know we should scale back on the number of fighters on board, and increase their verticle lift capability with additional helicopters and harriers to support the Marines. The navy needs to come away from it's blue roots, and get into the green water. It is doing this to a certain extent already with it's additonal new SWCC and rivirine and seabee units. The expititionary idea is one that I think is going in the right direction. The biggest thing that I feel needs to be improved in this country is the collection and desemination of lessons learned, after action reports, and all source intelligence. It seems as though each agency and department that hassome responsibility for intelligence is very stoved piped even now after 9/11. I think that we should do away with homeland security, ATF, DEA, CIA, immigration, coast guard, all of it. These responsibilities should be split between the FBI, which is responsible for internal security and is a law enforcement agency and the DoD whose responsibility begins at our borders and customs checks and continues anywhere outside our borders. The State Department should be solely responsible for immigration as far as paperwork and visas, and the DoD should be responsible for border security. Our governemnt is disgustingly huge in so many places. Defense, Intelligence and law enforcement, that's my area. I've seen such disgusting waste both in my military and civilian careers. Efficiancy is no longer prized. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 2:12 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Ship Of Fools > > > tBone wrote: > > How so? > > > > I'm not calling for a ban on islamists, I'm not saying they > shouldn't > > be allowed here. > > > > I know for a fact that I have a deep and personal prejudice > against muslims. > > I make adjustments for it when I catch myself. > > > > That being said, I think that religion is the biggest > inspiration to > > evil in the world. > > > > That same community around DC spawned CAIR, and has been to > scene of a > > great many terror arrests. > > > > As has the community in Dearborn. > > > > Couldn't agree more. With everything you said. everything. > > A Jewish relative of mine had been telling me for years that > Muslims had an unorganized conspiracy to invade the western > world; which, up until about 3-4 years ago I thought was BS. > > No longer. > > I almost think the PC don't-be-prejudiced culture is blinding > us and allowing invaders to walk right in. > > Look what just happened in India. > > Let's profile. Let's pre-judge. These people - or a minimal > critical mass of them - are undermining civilization itself. > > Instead of spending $3 Trillion on stupid shit like Iraq - > which will prove to be the most misguided attempt at fixing > the problem ever - we should've and should be spending that > money on human intelligence and delta/grey fox teams. > > The US should be secretly hunting down the heads of these > groups and taking them out. > > At the same time, you also have to provide options for good > jobs, employment, et al. It's a 2 pronged approach: one is > the carrot and one is the stick. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281752 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
