Saturday, June 30, 2018

Second Revolution in Military Affairs (2RMA) @ThomasWictor says I approve. If we send our troops to war, we need to have an outrageous advantage, so that they can effortlessly mop the earth with the enemy. Thank you, @realDonaldTrump. We waited a long time for you...


(1) AHA! The US has joined the Second Revolution in Military Affairs (2RMA). Here's the description of the 2RMA.
1:39 AM - 30 Jun 2018
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      (2) Basically, the 2RMA creates strategic special forces. Imagine Green Berets with their own tanks, gunships, fixed-wing aircraft, artillery, and naval capabilities.
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      (3) US doctrine called for special-operations units top be used as tactical assets. The 2RMA allows special-operations units to win wars. That makes them strategic assets.
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      (4) The only thing we REALLY know about them is that they fight in "combined arms micro teams."
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      (5) A micro team would have one tank, one self-propelled artillery piece, one helicopter gunship, one fixed-wing aircraft, one infantry squad, one antitank squad, one sniper squad, one machine-gun quad, and one mortar squad.
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      (6) The Germans invented this in World War One. What you want is for the smallest possible unit to have all the weapons of a division, as well as associated air and naval capabilities.
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    6.  6 hours ago
      (7) But one hundred years ago, the technology was simply not up to par. AND the Germans discovered something that nobody anticipated. Married men with children don't fight as hard. They want to live.
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      (8) Eighteen-year-olds and twenty-eight-year-olds belonged to entirely different generations, in terms of how hard they fought.
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      (9) So the 2RMA solved both problems. Now, the technology is so advanced that a platoon of men are the same as an entire regiment from the Vietnam War, for example. Or maybe even from the 2003 Iraqi invasion.
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      (10) The battlefield is now digitized, and each micro team is represented by a dot and number for each man or woman. All the micro teams can see each other, so they work out the best way to carry out the mission.
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      (11) The Germans of World War One also discovered that you have to delegate authority down to the lowest possible rank. Lieutenants and sergeants lead the micro teams. Speed is the most important aspect, so you have to give junior officers and noncommissioned officers autonomy.
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      (12) For as long as the Pentagon had a Website, this was the stated mission.
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      (13) The mission was "to provide the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of our country."
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    13.  6 hours ago
      (14) At some point--without fanfare--the Trump Pentagon changed its mission statement.
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      (16) So NOW the Pentagon's mission is "to provide a lethal Joint Force to defend the security of our country and sustain American influence abroad."
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      (17) A Joint Force can't exist if the heads of the various branches are in competition. This was the first evidence that we've joined the 2RMA.
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      (19) "'They were integrated with [special operations forces], absolutely integrated. We were providing Marine infantry, we were providing indirect fires, and we were providing anti-tank fires.'"
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      (20) The Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response for Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) initially had THIS stated mission.
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      (21) "SPMAGTF-CR-CC conducts crisis response, contingency operations, theater security cooperation, enabling operations and all other missions as may be directed throughout the CENTCOM area of operations in order to support CDR USCENTCOM requirements."
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    21.  6 hours ago
      (22) There were two US Marine rifle companies in Syria for 243 days of combat. Let's do the INCREDIBLY HARD work of describing a marine rifle company. Here we go:
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      (23) Three rifle platoons, comprised of three rifle squads each. A rifle squad = squad leader and three fire teams. A fire team = team leader/grenadier, a two-man automatic rifle team, and a rifleman/scout. Total = 144 men.
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      (24) Each rifle company also has a weapons platoon. Dammit. This is going to take me a long time. Hold on.
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      (25) Two platoon commanders. Machine-gun section = section leader, three squads. Squad = squad leader, two teams. Team = team leader, gunner, ammunition carrier. Total = 24 men.
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      (26) Mortar section = section leader, three squads. Squad = squad leader/gunner, assistant gunner, ammunition carrier. Total = 10 men.
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      (27) Assault section = section leader, three squads (SMAW rockets). Squad = squad leader/gunner, gunner, assistant gunner. Total = 10 men.
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      (28) So one rifle company is 188 men. Two rifle companies is 376 men. Plus 40 Delta Force commandos = 416 men. They were easily outnumbered 30 to 1, but they suffered no casualties.
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      (29) THIS is the 2RMA. Lethality. A very small number of troops who have the ability to handle...anything.
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      (30) I approve. If we send our troops to war, we need to have an outrageous advantage, so that they can effortlessly mop the earth with the enemy. Thank you, . We waited a long time for you...
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      (31) ADDENDUM:
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    1.  4 hours ago
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      Amazing how much I’ve learned from you, Thomas! Thank you!
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    1.  6 hours ago
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      Thanks for ‘connecting the dots’ for us Thomas!
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    1.  6 hours ago
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      aha, indeed.
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    1.  17 minutes ago
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      Excellent work Thomas. Perhaps someone could put this in an informational chart for overall understanding. Appreciate.



    1.  6 hours ago
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      LOL The IDF does share boarder security technology.
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      Thomas, how on earth do you know so much about any subject? I'm in Awe!
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    2.  5 hours ago
      Me too. He's Brilliant!
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      Decimate the enemy
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