• Darkcommie@lemmygrad.ml
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    12 hours ago

    The support arms are the ones doing the tracking and identifying and even the fighting is iffy since most of the time whenever they encounter insurgents the US just calls in an air strike, artillery or mortar team

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      12 hours ago

      I find it hard to believe that they have literally zero training in counter insurgency. Nothing? At all?

      I mean that’s funny if it’s true, no wonder insurgents keep winning lol

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        11 hours ago

        It’s actually not that hard to believe before Iraq and Afghanistan the us army was trained to fight the soviet union and so their transition to being an anti insurgency force was pretty slow and didn’t start till after 9/11, it also didn’t help that by 2010 they effectively gave up on Afghanistan and Iraq