Even as we morn the deaths of our brave soldiers who were killed in the fight against the terrorist insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. A three star general looking forward to his fourth star is the leader of a school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, that trains each year 2000 young Army officers how to be"more culturally sensitive."General David Petraeus, a highly decorated leader of the 101st airborne division in Mosul, Iraq in 2001-2003 , now is in charge of making the future leaders of our troops, who go into battle, how to
do their utmost to avoid large scale destruction. To win the hearts and minds of the people in the countries they are sent to fight. They are taught respect for foreigners, have cultural awareness and practice tolerance.This General with the aid of Marine general James Mattis has written a 241 page manual that is the new way to combat counterinsurgency.
You probably won't be able to read these articles in our "Lame" Media". I found it in a lengthy report written for Der Spiegel on line by Ullrich Fechtner. A German citizen who was allowed access to this highly classified and barb wire protected Army base to interview General Petraeus about his "revolutionary" approach to training our combat leaders.
One of the quotes from this General that caught my attention was his assertion: "It is easy to blow down and go in with machine guns blazing or throw grenades. But when you do that you often risk creating more enemies because of the way you conducted the operation". The huge impact of cultural, religious and ethnic factors. Those are the key elements when you plan and conduct military operations. A nation building army with money as the best ammunition ,is the new way." This really scares me!
Doesn't this man realize he is taking men and women who either in their four years in training at West Point or during their ROTC training were taught to be trained leaders of people who are trained not to be diplomats, they do that in diplomacy schools, but to lead people who can kill the enemy so we win the war. Whatever it takes.
By feminisation of our Army we are building a schitzophrenic group of leaders who will have to stop and think before they pull the trigger. By that time they and their men will be dead. God help us!
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Your ignorance of Dave Petraeus, his capabilites and accomplisnments is sad. GEN Petraeus was one of the fiercest military leaders we had in the initial invasion of Iraq - and he led from the front - literally. But, he knows, more than most do, that you have to win the war, not the battle, to succeed, and that does not mean killing everybody. What he did in Northern Iraq after the invasion to create an opportunity for success is already legendary We need more leaders like him, not fewer.
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