It's Vietnam all over again

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: This is the same shit we went thru 35 years ago.






Army chief of staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey speaks April 19 at Camp Liberty, Iraq, with U.S. soldiers. Dempsey, who ascended to the role of top officer last month, wants to quickly leave his imprint on the service.


New Army chief of staff eyes big changes
By Lance M. Bacon - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday May 7, 2011 9:04:16 EDT

The day after he became chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Martin Dempsey was given an in-depth assessment of the state of the Army he took over. It was not a pretty picture.

[timtom]

1. Holy cow!!

He looks just like the military commander in Avatar!

[WinkyDink]

2. Only longer.

[Marblehead]

3. they learned from

Vietnam, not to have a draft. Don't need all those protester to mess up a perfectly good war.

[intaglio]

4. All of the emphasis on promotion rates and cuts

Makes me think the Army is expecting cut-backs in the near to medium future.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Complete with collateral damage, apologies, escalation, and rosy scenarios.

And, most likely, another pretty monument to the cannon-fodder.