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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-16-2009, 12:31 AM
zuludelta
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The funny thing about the state of infantry organization right now is the Army's been trying for the past few years to re-organize around the Stryker armored vehicle (just another example of the strange approach they've been using lately, organizing men around equipment needs, instead of vice-versa).
And while units like the ranger regiment are for the most part untouched by the whole ass-backwards "equipment dictates manpower allocation" phenomena, I can see that possibly changing in the future, as military equipment contractors start having a larger and larger say in how the military is organized. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future, a ranger squad's composition will be organized based not on sound small unit tactics, but on how many people and how much equipment can fit inside the Army brass' new pet project (the SOCV/LSV).
[here's where I go off on a little rant, feel free to ignore this portion]
It's been a disturbing trend over the past few years, where commanders have been bending over backwards to accomodate companies like General Dynamics, Boeing, and Lockheed, sometimes at the cost of strategic and tactical flexibility. Part of this is because some of these generals are looking at fat consultancy positions at these same companies after retirement. This should be raising "conflict-of-interest" flags and I wonder why there hasn't been a bigger public outcry over this, especially since some of these commercially-motivated actions have directly led to the loss of soldiers' lives and gross overspending (the V-22 Osprey scandal probably being the highest profile example).
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