Saturday, July 05, 2014

Task Force Smith. Its gonna happen again if the US Army isn't careful.


I've been looking at cuts to the US Army with more than a little alarm.  I've been stunned by how much they're cutting.

Surprisingly though, I don't hear much complaint from Soldiers on the issue.  They accept it as a fact that the Army will be eviscerated after every war.

That's too bad.  Task Force Smith is required study in the Marine Corps and the teaching of it isn't kind.  It goes a little like this.  US Army units were rushed to Korea and those units were unprepared for combat.  They got mauled and it was up to the Marine Corps to save them.  It inflated non-sense and doesn't tell the whole story but it forms the basis of our very ethos.

We will be most ready when the nation is least.

My fear is that we're looking at another Task Force Smith in the future.  We will soon (I think) run up against an issue where we have to act.  Where we will have no other choice but to deploy ground forces.

And at that time the nation will be least ready...and so will the US Army if they keep on their current path.

Check out this article from the Free Beacon and then check out the extent of the coming pain in this blog post from American Mercenary.

America's enemies are watching.  They understand that the public is war weary.  What better time to strike?