Joint Military Exercises in LA

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mhakel

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I have heard of these in Little Rock and other cities. If I were to connect the dots......would I come up with a training mission for enforcing Martial Law? Why not have a " Joint Training Exercise" on the border. Sorry my glass used to be half full, now it is half empty.....
I'm not trying to be political at all, I just feel as though times are tuff now for alot of us and things are only going to get worse......We have way too many riding in the wagon and not nearly enough pulling it.
Just my thoughts, what are yours.
 
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Not being political here but when was the last time the government did anything that makes sense?

The government spends taxpayer money, not theirs. They have money to waste by using our money.
 
The entire fighting strength of the U.S. military had a difficult time pacifying Iraq, a relatively small country with a comparitively small population. It was unable to pacify South Vietnam, despite dropping a greater tonnage of bombs than during WW2. Afghanistan, where substantial forces are still engaged, isn't pacified either.

What makes you think that there are enough troops to control, with any degree of effectiveness, a country as large as the United States?

Fallujah was a nasty fight. There were a fair number of casualties, though thanks to modern military medicine, there were less killed (and many more surviving wounded) than in past wars. The Marines already consider it to have been the modern equivalent of Hue. Numerous Army units were also involved in the fighting. Simply put, that battle - along with some other urban fights in Iraq - drove home the importance of continued MOUT training - military operations in urban terrain. Though this need has been realized to some extent since Aachen, Hue, Mogadishu, et al.

The world's population is expanding into a number of mega cities and the military needs to be able to fight and operate in this terrrain.
 
GatorFarmer said:
The entire fighting strength of the U.S. military had a difficult time pacifying Iraq, a relatively small country with a comparitively small population. It was unable to pacify South Vietnam, despite dropping a greater tonnage of bombs than during WW2. Afghanistan, where substantial forces are still engaged, isn't pacified either.

What makes you think that there are enough troops to control, with any degree of effectiveness, a country as large as the United States?

Fallujah was a nasty fight. There were a fair number of casualties, though thanks to modern military medicine, there were less killed (and many more surviving wounded) than in past wars. The Marines already consider it to have been the modern equivalent of Hue. Numerous Army units were also involved in the fighting. Simply put, that battle - along with some other urban fights in Iraq - drove home the importance of continued MOUT training - military operations in urban terrain. Though this need has been realized to some extent since Aachen, Hue, Mogadishu, et al.

The world's population is expanding into a number of mega cities and the military needs to be able to fight and operate in this terrrain.
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Just because it probably can't be done doesen't mean someone isn't willing to try.
 
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