re: Marines not ready for combat

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Posting an opinion article from some obscure website as if it’s a legit news article

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Dude the American Spectator is hardly leftist or obscure.

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Thank you. They seemed allergic to uttering his name.

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No joke, pretty weird!

Do they not have Bayonets?

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What about a signal jammer?

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I don’t think it’s that easy.

Ukraine has been on the forefront of this type of weapons. They have a lot of tech capabilities and have had a lot of losses.

I think the USA is developing interceptor drones but not sure they can handle the drone swarms yet.

For the ships and stuff they can knock drones down but I don’t know if they can protect hundreds of individual soldiers in the field. I don’t know if the systems are mobile enough to cover troops on the move.

Echo chamber? Can you heeeeeeeeeaaaarrrrr meeeeeeee?

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Marine Corps Maj. Gen. James Livingston (retired) is a career infantry officer. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while serving as the commanding officer, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines during the Battle of Dai Do in Vietnam.

Marine Corps Col. Jay Vargas (retired) is a career infantry officer. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor while serving as the commanding officer, Company G, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines during the Battle of Dai Do in Vietnam.

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While their opinions are always welcome, we’re not in Vietnam any more. Their opinions are outdated.

The use of drones has changed warfare exponentially in just a few years, just like boobytraps changed things in Vietnam, and IED’s changed things in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Look at Ukraine, it’s easy to find videos of drones blowing up tanks or zeroing in on foot soldiers…either suicide drones flying into targets or others dropping explosives.

We need to be putting money into fighting the newer generation of warfare, not trying to fight a romanticized version of Iwo Jima.

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Their opinions are outdated.

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what opinions specifically did they state that you find outdated?

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what opinions specifically did they state that you find outdated?

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Did you read the article?

Did you read the rest of my post?

The article itself is three years old, and warfare as we know it has changed dramatically in three years.

I spent a couple of hours chatting with one of the authors, Maj Gen Livingston a couple of months ago. I didn’t know about this article at that time, but we discussed the changes drone warfare in Ukraine has brought to the battlefield.

Things mentioned in the article like armored divisions, field artillery and sniper squads are being rendered useless by drones and AI. An IED or a drone is a force multiplier, blow up one tank you block a road and injure/kill multiple troops. AI can give you high percentage areas for a sniper to be, one shot from him and a fleet of waiting drones can take him out. Field artillery? Take it out with a drone. Bases? Send a drone swarm. And the drone pilots can be far away from the action.

War is changing, to be successful you have to change with it. Old habits die hard. Saw a video a couple of days ago of either Ukranian or Russian troops digging trenches for trench warfare, they were finding ammo from WW2 in the trench walls.

They’re stubbornly still following WW2 orthodoxy, even though drones render trenches into death traps.

We certainly still have a need for combat troops, and particularly specialized units like SEALS, Rangers, Delta, etc. for missions like the Maduro raid/quick strikes on a target.

But times have rapidly changed. We aren’t sending landing craft to attack China, and we aren’t going to have tank battles with Russian troops in Europe.

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Yeah that never happens here. All the TD Trump loving sources are always fully vetted. Like when they said Catholics love Trump even more when he shits on the pope.

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Whataboutism? So surprised.

The US spent almost 20 years in war recently. We’ve had plenty of opportunities in recent history.