Read Dheermesc's response below. I was mainly talking about US forces but he pretty much covers the problems the Soviets had when they were there. Personally I spend the first Gulf War setting off shore on an aircraft carrier. I saw first hand the number of munitions we had onboard and were dropped toward the enemy. Problem was when a bomb was dropped they had to worry that it wasn't being dropped anywhere near any innocent civilians. Take for instance the factory that was bombed for making chemical weapons that was later claimed to be a "baby food factory" and look at the media mess and political fallout that ensued over that....That's just one incident that I can remember, and to be honest you folks back home knew more about what was going on, due to the news, than those of us that were over there did....
Look at what's happening nowdays where it's often not shoot the enemy first, it's wait until getting shot at first, still having to play by the rules where you can't do anything to put even one civilian at risk of harm (((even if said civilian is harbouring the enemy and it means taking out 500 of the enemy in doing so))). Granted I'm not there this time and I was off shore last time so I don't know ALL of the BS rules the politicins place on our guys on the ground, but I've known guys that were on the ground then and now. Funny thing is regardless of rank when not having to be PC and spewing the 'official line' they all pretty much say the same thing I said...."Let us do out job and we'll do it but give us so many 'politicaly based' restrictions and all we can do is pray not to get killed."
So, between politicians making PC decisions saying that was should be 'nice' and you shouldn't actually be a fight to win, and the media telling the enemy enough about troop movements, etc to compromise their safety how can you expect any military force to ever win a battle?????
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