>The 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in North Carolina includes a brigade combat team of about 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers ready to deploy on 18 hours notice for missions as varied as seizing airfields and other critical infrastructure, reinforcing U.S. embassies and enabling emergency evacuations. Its headquarters element is responsible for coordinating how those operations are planned and executed.
It’s useful to consider the logic of what’s happening here:
* Air strikes are an ongoing tactical success
* Targets identified and eliminated continuously for several days in a row
* Offensive capabilities attrited
* Command and Control severed
* Infrastructure destroyed
* But the regime remains in control of everything
* No transfer of power to a US favorable group
* Leadership more extreme
* Nuclear material remains
* Nuclear program status unclear
* The potential to rebuild missiles remains
* Potential remains to build a bomb
So in other words, we have tactical success but strategic failure. Oh noes, what do? Easy, send in the army. Put boots on the ground. Continue to bomb. Keep getting tactical wins.
But regime will still be there, in power. What do? Put more troops in. Keep bombing. Tactical win, lose some soldiers, shit happens it’s war. Regime remains. What do? Keep sending more troops.
Eventually we’ll give up and lose or flood the country in a ,,forever war”.
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>The 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in North Carolina includes a brigade combat team of about 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers ready to deploy on 18 hours notice for missions as varied as seizing airfields and other critical infrastructure, reinforcing U.S. embassies and enabling emergency evacuations. Its headquarters element is responsible for coordinating how those operations are planned and executed.
It’s useful to consider the logic of what’s happening here:
* Air strikes are an ongoing tactical success
* Targets identified and eliminated continuously for several days in a row
* Offensive capabilities attrited
* Command and Control severed
* Infrastructure destroyed
* But the regime remains in control of everything
* No transfer of power to a US favorable group
* Leadership more extreme
* Nuclear material remains
* Nuclear program status unclear
* The potential to rebuild missiles remains
* Potential remains to build a bomb
So in other words, we have tactical success but strategic failure. Oh noes, what do? Easy, send in the army. Put boots on the ground. Continue to bomb. Keep getting tactical wins.
But regime will still be there, in power. What do? Put more troops in. Keep bombing. Tactical win, lose some soldiers, shit happens it’s war. Regime remains. What do? Keep sending more troops.
Eventually we’ll give up and lose or flood the country in a ,,forever war”.