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http://articles.boston.com/2012-01-17/e ... und-troopsTHE LONG-AWAITED strategic review at the Pentagon, released earlier this month, was the first salvo in the deficit-reduction effort to cut defense spending by $487 billion over the next decade. The Obama administration’s proposals - slowly reducing the number of aircraft carriers, trimming excess nuclear weapons, focusing on Asia rather than Europe, and limiting ground troops in favor of technology - all move in the right direction. Hidden in the specific budget reductions, however, was a direct acknowledgment that America’s brief and unhappy foray into counterinsurgency operations has come to an end.
Juxtapose that opinion with the fact that the US military has been involved in planning and executing irregular warfare operations (which includes counterinsurgency) regularly since before the country began. Add to this fact that the #1priority for the military specified in that same document read by the Globe editors is countering terrorism and irregular warfare. Also found in the list of top ten priorities is counterinsurgency. We have always lived in a world where our enemies try to hurt us in clever and destructive ways, and not always in a “conventional” orientation. I don’t think anyone disagrees that our military must be ready to fight competently in joint combined arms fire and maneuver, but it would be absurd to reject the need (the requirement) also to continue with irregular warfare education, training, concept development and doctrine. The Army must astutely balance multiple requirements.
http://usacacblogs.army.mil/usacounteri ... 12/01/241/
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