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Jeffrey Dinsmore's avatar

This letter is a brilliant summation of the problem statement, which must be hammered with everyone who will listen. The Nature of War is violence, friction, and uncertainty. These are immutable. Panacea solutions that seek to minimize violence (precision weapons), or eliminate uncertainty and friction (net-centric warfare and persistent ISR), are the hallmarks of today's procurement efforts. A Corps, and its Marines, must be trained and equipped to operate flexibly within the Nature of War. A Marine Corps enamored with concepts that seek to defeat the Nature of War is on a fool's errand.

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KBar1938's avatar

Been in too many firefights to have any use for those dilettantes who think they know what war is all about—real war not their fantasies. Far too many of them—in uniform and civilian clothes—in the Pentagon. I would give a fortunate to have a few of these “geniuses” on a modern battlefield for 30 minutes to see how well their bright ideas work out. Should knock some common sense into their ivory tower heads! Let the grunts have all the technology they want but don’t tell them it's going to work magic and make their lives easy. Nope, they will still spend a lot of time down in the dirt dodging incoming and trying like hell to gain fire superiority. Thanks to General Krulak for recognizing Senator Cotton.

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