re: US Marine captain writes stinging op-ed: 'We lost the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan'

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How, then, have we been bested by malnourished and undereducated men with antiquated and improvised weaponry whilst spending trillions of dollars in national treasure and costing the lives of thousands of servicemen and hundreds of thousands of civilians?" he wrote.

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Simple. Our unwillingness to wage total war, and our ridiculous ROE. Oh we know there's a terrorist training camp here. But it's next to a hospital so we won't bomb it.

Uh no. You bomb the shite out of it. Regardless of what it's surrounded by.

Limited warfare is total and complete bullshite.