Bob Parks: Black & Right
03-30-2007, 01:16 PM
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Bob Parks: Black & Right
Anyone here of this guy? Seems to know his stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Yc3wYJOtI&eurl
http://blackandright.mensnewsdaily.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Yc3wYJOtI&eurl
http://blackandright.mensnewsdaily.com/
03-30-2007, 09:30 PM
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I almost wrote him an email, but didn't want to have to create an acct and all.
That metric of how many of us vs. them have died or been removed from battle due to wounds is reliable and something that, while maybe not perfectly accurate, can be calculated pretty closely.
However, I still believe that you can win every single battle soundly and lose the war just as easily.
Domestic public opinion influences the voting/policy making behavior of those in power, which could trigger a premature cutting of the funds.
Global opinion can influence the size & scope of our coalition partners, which could have a very marked impact on operations.
Iraqi domestic opinion, whether deserved or not, can impact operations. For instance, if intelligence drives operations and a large chunk of our intel is from humint/CA/psyops (face-to-face with locals), and the insurgents begin having a monopoly over local support; our human intelligence well will dry up and we're back to conducting movements to contact...which are definitely not preferred.
Bottom line, if it's true what they say (and though I don't believe it is...it could be) that the more insurgents we kill, an even greater number of 'fence-sitters' are pulled into the terroristic fold. Not to mention the very young who are being bred to take the place or recent martyrs. In other words, the greater our successes are, there may be a higher potential for the radicals to foment support among non- or borderline muslims.
If this equation were true, then the whole bodycount mechanism no is no longer the imperical standard of winning or losing.
That metric of how many of us vs. them have died or been removed from battle due to wounds is reliable and something that, while maybe not perfectly accurate, can be calculated pretty closely.
However, I still believe that you can win every single battle soundly and lose the war just as easily.
Domestic public opinion influences the voting/policy making behavior of those in power, which could trigger a premature cutting of the funds.
Global opinion can influence the size & scope of our coalition partners, which could have a very marked impact on operations.
Iraqi domestic opinion, whether deserved or not, can impact operations. For instance, if intelligence drives operations and a large chunk of our intel is from humint/CA/psyops (face-to-face with locals), and the insurgents begin having a monopoly over local support; our human intelligence well will dry up and we're back to conducting movements to contact...which are definitely not preferred.
Bottom line, if it's true what they say (and though I don't believe it is...it could be) that the more insurgents we kill, an even greater number of 'fence-sitters' are pulled into the terroristic fold. Not to mention the very young who are being bred to take the place or recent martyrs. In other words, the greater our successes are, there may be a higher potential for the radicals to foment support among non- or borderline muslims.
If this equation were true, then the whole bodycount mechanism no is no longer the imperical standard of winning or losing.
03-31-2007, 10:39 AM
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Yeah, I agree with how the left constantly feels the need to tell the troop death toll as if I don't know and as if they really gave a ****. The only thing they know about the military is how many have died giving them the right to dribble out their leftists bull****. Pisses me off.
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