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Is the US military really suited towards fighting a 4th generation war against terrorism?
Seriously, when you look at it, is the US army really suited to fighting terrorists or rogue states? When you look at the American forces, they look like they are going to fight a modern version of WWII or the Cold War! Seriously, I mean, why do you need:
- 12 carrier battle groups
- support 3 fighter groups (like the f-22 or f-35 is ever going to lure mujahadeens out of the street or the mountain or the desert)
- 50 nuclear attack submarines and a dozen ballistic missile subs
- about 5000 tanks
- training tactics for "high-intensity war"
- thousands of air superiority fighters, and dozens, if not hundreds of heave bombers
Is that really the best options to fight terrorism, which the Bush administration repeatedly declares it top priority? What could they be doing better right now? I mean, that does not seem like the best option for counter-guerilla warfare.
Congratulations. You are one of the few people who even realize that the concept of a fourth generation war exists.
Our forces are learning. There is still politics involved at the top, but most good soldiers are already studying new ways to cope.
Read this article:
http://www.military.com/Opinions/0,,Lind_070705,00.html
Then download the PDF of the mock field manual that is available and print it out. You will want to read it again and again.
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Imperial War Museum: Desert Victory
movie about a tank crew fighting in the desert?
ok im looking for a movie about a tank crew that is fighting in the desert. the tank is a WWI style but it may actually take place in WWII. the plot takes place in the ruins of an ancient fortress that has a well that only offers a few drips of water. im sure that it is a force of germans trying to take this fortress but it has been over 10 years since i last saw this movie and the only part i can really remember is the ending. the tank crew takes several of the germans prisoner and the well has opened up due to a mortar shell exploding inside it. im sorry but that is the best i can remember any of it.
Sahara (1943)
IMDb synopsis:
While fighting in Libya during World War II, Sgt. Joe Gunn (Humphrey Bogart) and his M3 Lee tank lovingly referred to as Lulabelle are attached to the British Eighth Army. A retreat order comes through and Joe and his crew, Waco (Bruce Bennet) and Jimmy Doyle (Dan Duryea) are separated from their division and travel across the desert hoping to avoid Rommel's troops when they meet a rag tag group of British soldiers at a field hospital unaware of the retreat. In desperate need of water, Joe and his added passengers head toward the site of ancient Roman ruins which holds a watering hole many miles in the distance. Along the way they rescue an Italian soldier who goes by the name Guiseppi (J. Carrol Naish) and a Sudanese soldier and are attacked by a German plane. They shoot down the plane and take the pilot prisoner and learn from him that there are thousands of German soldiers needing water who are travelling toward the well at the ruins where Gunn and his crew is heading. When Gunn arrives at the watering hole the flow of water is very slow and they work diligently to get enough for themselves. Wanting to slow down the incoming Germans from rejoining the war, Gunn sends Waco out across the desert to retrieve the American army nearby for assistance, but the question is whether the desert may prove to be too much.
Here's the opening of the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dxialPCf7g
Unfortunately, I haven't found it on YouTube, but I'd think this should be readily available, being a Bogie movie.
You did a good job of describing the movie, as the ruins and the well nail this classic film!
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