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Summary: Propaganda for an obsolete 172,000 man/woman bureaucracy
Review: WHERE IS CLANCY'S OBJECTIVITY? 172,000 gyrenes on the public dole and just 3 of these cat's meus afloat---of just a battalion size each in a different part of the world to be an evacuation service for the State Department? Just one U.S. Army Division has 3 times this force on 18-hour readiness---an actual war-winning BRIGADE not a tiny sea-based evac/saber rattler unit. If Clancy wants to sell books by brown-nosing to a different segment of the U.S. military, in this case the navalist/land-locked posturers, FINE. But don't even pretend to be a serious work describing serious defense issues. The FACT is that the Mc is land-locked, couldn't even get to the fight in a timely manner even if we had ships---and Clancy should know all about the mines, diesel-electric submarines and space satellite targeting which would rain on these slow surface ships if we tried. Look what Argentina did to the British with less than a handful of Exocet ASMs! Many today think if they had had a dozen or more they would have sank the british fleet and won the way by anti-access tactics. Our day of reckoning for the obsolete surface ship amphibian is coming! Where will Clancy be when the casualty figures come pouring in? When you have this much time on your hands due to being land-locked posturers you can afford to waltz around in dress blues and set up college sorority initiation rites of passage and masquerade it all as "tough training". The Mc couldn't even land on the beaches of Kuwait defended by the measley Iraqis! America will not tolerate the flag-draped coffins of a frontalist Mc dog 'n pony show for CNN to help in their on-going attempts to waste ever more BILLIONS of tax dollars on gadgets that will never be used in a fight. Semper veritas!
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