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originally posted in:Sapphire
1/23/2014 4:40:01 AM
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Interesting idea, but the military is already a combination of the "Leviathan" and "Sys Admin".
"War is a failure of out foreign policy." America's military objective is deterrence. We do not want to engage anybody, because we know we will win, and we want to prevent it from happening in the first place. The problem with his strategy is that it assumes that America takes central control of a country it's waging war in...we did NOT want to take over Afghanistan, Iraq, Korea, Kuwait, or Vietnam. It does no good to decapitate a country's leadership, then assume that role to rebuild everything. We saw this with Iraq; we rebuilt shit, we did combat ops with their army, and we nannied them for years, and then when we leave, they are almost immediately invaded by the forces that we had just run out.
Not to mention that our strategy has changed since 2005 when this was recorded. Smart ideas, but it's largely extraneous.
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The problem with the current mix is that you have soldier 'slaying towelheads' one day, then expecting them to babysit and protect people who (to them) don't appear that much different. As for Iraq; polls over the years have shown that, while the Iraqis are grateful that Saddam was kicked out of power and that the war was worth it, they still don't really like the US / Coalition simply due to the troubles they got from checkpoints, etc in the years afterward. The idea with the Leviathan + Sys Admin approach is that after the initial fight (ie the part the Iraqi's liked), you withdraw most of the combat forces and replace them with semi-civilian builders, engineers, medics, etc. You keep sufficient forces in there to keep those civilians protected, but you work towards making it perfectly clear who the bad guys are. Get 98%+ of the population on your side, and the other 2% will lose faith in their message.
