If I had my way, this would be the 3rd article of impeachment, right next to the Benghazi story. In a world where the Legacy Media actually did their job, this would continue to be a news item for some time (and if a Republican was in the White House, you know it would), but a news item over at Breitbart and a related story right here at Human Events got me a bit heated and it was just fortuitous that a friend of the blog will be discussing this on Blog Talk Radio this next week and I would encourage all to tune in to hear what the panelists have to say. I plan on making a little time while at work to have a listen. But the idea of this discussion about the ROE and this news story about one of our special operators got me to thinking about what a difference in leadership means and how that difference is personified in the way we prosecute the war in Afghanistan. If the powers that be were to ask me, and I hope someone does, this is how I would do it next time. 1. ROE is disseminated, not printed. The squad leaders, platoon sergeants, first sergeants and junior leaders of our grandfathers and great grandfathers generation would laugh incredulously and laugh long at the fact that each and every line soldier carries around in their right cargo pocket a double sided and printed card that delineates chapter and verse the situations that you can shoot and not shoot. I am certain that no one was reviewing the ROE before jumping off a Higgins Boat on Utah Beach or Inchon, waiting for the green light before jumping over Normandy, or fighting their way through the Ia Drang Valley. Soldiers today don't need a card because from now on, the Chain of Command will be responsible that every soldier knows the rules; which are thus: Shoot first, shoot often, and above all just do what makes sense For instance, would it make sense to spend our time patrolling where the enemy is not? No. Would it make sense to send an infantry soldier when a good old fashioned bomb will do? Yes (right after the shrapnel stops flying). The job of every junior leader is to ensure that every soldier is aware of the ROE, because we are not going to have time once the shooting starts to sit down and have a team building exercise in study hall where we can review the rules and how we might apply them, given our current situation. My Dad always told me "you can't ever go wrong if you do what makes sense." 2. If You Want to Play, Get a Uniform. This should be a no brainer, but we need to put the pus-nuts and two-bit IED makers on notice that if you don't have the right clothes on when we have our meeting engagement, we are NOT sending those of you that survive your run-in with American Warriors to Gitmo for lemon chicken and US Army rules of interrogation while we fret over your Qurans. We will however, machine gun your corpses repeatedly and burn the remains, regardless of any awareness of cultural sensibilities should you choose to hid amongst the population and cause us to bomb your entire neighborhood just to get you. Since you can pick us out on the battlefield, we want the same courtesy, and if you choose to not play by our rules, then you get no respect from the Geneva Convention, and that is because the Geneva Convention says I don't have to. 3. Leave the Libtard Media at Home And you could combine this with don't grant them access to anything you want to keep secret. They are populated by the mentally ill and do not have the interests of the country at heart and the idea that soldiers doing soldier stuff would get a fair shake from them regarding anything they report insults our intelligence. A better move might be that if we are forced to take them with us to tell "our story" then let's do it like the networks do the Super Bowl, make them bid for it as the exclusive carrier of those broadcasts and reports. That way, if we find them covering the story from the perspective of our enemy, then we could assign a unit to hunt them down and terminate them with extreme prejudice as a warning to others, and then give the contract to a different network. Their editors despise us, their journalism schools indoctrinate them, and they are generally a pain in the ass so bottom line; our war, our rules and you don't get to report it. 4. Develop A Shift in Thinking In The Officer Corps. As in, move our paradigm from one of being afraid to smash our enemies to one of only smashing our enemies. Case in Point: Platoon Sergeant of a Cav Trooper tells me one day that while in Iraq, Cav Trooper in an OP spots 4 douchebags who have been driving around with a mortar in the back of their pickup truck dropping rounds on his friends in the FOB, so one day he spots these douchebags about deliver some rounds from their mortar tube on his FOB; so he decides to use his issued Javelin Missile to introduce said douchebags to their well deserved goat virgins and does so in a very deadly and accurate manner (as in "top attack" mode with direct hit on the pickup, Cav Trooper 4, Islamist Douchebags Nil). Was this soldier promoted? Given a Medal? Nope and Nope. Soldier was brought before the brigade commander to explain his actions and then the brigade commander orders all Javelins returned supply and stored in the ASP. So where did this Brigade Commander get this thinking? I have no clue, but if I was CENTCOM Commander, I would have relieved him and put someone...
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