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2007-01-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Damn. Guess there really are consequences to losing a war. Who knew?

Posted by Elmotch Glomoling7166 2007-01-17 00:40|| 2007-01-17 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing personal---fly boys are perfectly OK in their place, but one shouldn't be RAMATKAL (head of joint staff).

Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-17 06:03|| 2007-01-17 06:03|| Front Page Top

#3
Nothing personal---fly boys are perfectly OK in their place, but one shouldn't be RAMATKAL (head of joint staff).

It is perfectly Ok for an Air Force guy to be RATMAKAL... as long as he is smart. Smart enough to be undistracted by service loyalty and not try to solve a ground army problem with air for. Also, a chief of staff is less concerned with the planning of actual operations (remind it was NOT Colin Powell who designed the plan for Desert Stotm) but with defence policy, coordination between services, management of resources both between services (he must resist the temptation to strip other services and inflate his own) and between fronts so there is no reason at least in peace time that a Navy or Air Force man cannot become chief of staff. In war time I would tend to think that it is better to have a guy who know from teh inside, the neeeeeds, strenghts and weaknesses from the service who is most crucial for winning the war. 90% of time this is the ground army even if from time to time it isn't.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-01-17 08:04|| 2007-01-17 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Smart doesn't mean nada. Flyboys simply cannot grasp (on guts down level) how things work on ground level. Have no understanding of sustained combat. And Israeli, at least, don't understand logistics.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-17 12:53|| 2007-01-17 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with grom.

Posted by ex-lib 2007-01-17 15:32|| 2007-01-17 15:32|| Front Page Top

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