Cheetah772
Member
Hello everybody,
Since everybody here know that Rumsfeld always had a novel dream of creating a lighter military force with the same level of lethal combat power carried by heavier forces.
I recall a firestorm over Rumsfeld's aspirations in redesigning the US Navy by abolishing the current aircraft carriers even with one currently under construction, and creating a smaller aircraft carrier with 20 or less warplanes. Now, there was a real political war if I ever saw one!
As best I can remember, Rumsfeld lost out simply because the admirals carried too much political ammo.
Now, my question, will this Iraqi Freedom Operation kill Rumsfeld once for all? I mean politically, of course. I think in a few hours of intense fighting, Rumsfeld saw his dreams shattered by the reality.
"Flowing deployments" now look like a bad joke, which it is. Rumsfeld originally called for a rolling war with deployments pouring in week after week. Obviously, I feel it was mishandled badly.
Will this mean that we go back to the old Cold War mentality where we deploy the forces and build up to a suitable number of troops to launch our operations rather than trying to hit an enemy with a far lighter force than originally intended?
Dan
Since everybody here know that Rumsfeld always had a novel dream of creating a lighter military force with the same level of lethal combat power carried by heavier forces.
I recall a firestorm over Rumsfeld's aspirations in redesigning the US Navy by abolishing the current aircraft carriers even with one currently under construction, and creating a smaller aircraft carrier with 20 or less warplanes. Now, there was a real political war if I ever saw one!
As best I can remember, Rumsfeld lost out simply because the admirals carried too much political ammo.
Now, my question, will this Iraqi Freedom Operation kill Rumsfeld once for all? I mean politically, of course. I think in a few hours of intense fighting, Rumsfeld saw his dreams shattered by the reality.
"Flowing deployments" now look like a bad joke, which it is. Rumsfeld originally called for a rolling war with deployments pouring in week after week. Obviously, I feel it was mishandled badly.
Will this mean that we go back to the old Cold War mentality where we deploy the forces and build up to a suitable number of troops to launch our operations rather than trying to hit an enemy with a far lighter force than originally intended?
Dan