sega4life said:------------>Training<------------
Every few years you need to train your troops in REAL combat, regardless of how much training they went threw, nothing compares to real life situations. And when I say troops I mean all the troops, not just the one with Guns, but the ones that communicate, the ones that runs the systems, more importantly the internal systems. Also the weapons, every week 100's of new weapons are made (not just the ones that go boom) and they need to be tested. So the gather the best up and then use them in a real combat situation. Like War Games the movie, how do you know that person will push the button? You need to test the troops as real as possible, and what better way then the real thing. You lose some troops in the process.. but thats causalities of war, right offs, or cut list if you will.. It's a sad way to look at it but it's been going on sense the beginning of time, passed on generation to generation.
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Somebody's been playing too much MGS2.
And a society who would go to war just for training is beyond reproachable, though it does seem to me America just gets bored every decade or so and tries to get into a war.
OT: I think America is way too entangled with the Middle East to begin with. We need to take a step back and completely reevaluate how we handle our interactions with the Middle East. Or foreign policy in that part of the world has been nothing short of disastrous since Ronald Reagan and even before that.
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