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Obviously, they don't think they are at war, even a sub-national conflict and are not taking the rebel enemy seriously by being so exposed in the open and co-locating themselves with containers of fuel, the populace and cars--all of which could and do shoot bullets and explode bombs into their exposed bodies. http://www.combatreform.org/highexplosives.htm I'm sure none of them has watched Ponticorvo's docudrama "The Battle of Algiers" to see how foot presence patrolling is an open invitation to rebels to kill you; of course not! http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8691CC9B818981A6 They are too busy in the modern gadgetized, technodance version of the failed pre-WW2 malaise "From Here to Eternity" decadent garrison lifestyle that all war requires is PT, marksmanship with hand weapons and dismounted battle drills Exum's book, "This Man's Army" ad nauseum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnVZRgiOw-o This gives them maximum free time off-duty hours to get drunk and chase women. These are bad light infantry even from a foot-slogger perspective; poor camouflage, no dispersion, no armored vehicles shielding them from enemy line-of-sight; its common knowledge that garrison ruins Soldiers but PEACEKEEPING is even worse because it gives you this FALSE illusion that you are in nation-state war (NSW) "combat"--just ask any returning vet and he will tell you he is "Mr. Combat Expert"---when really we are goofing off in a quasi-peace situation and getting very sloppy. Even worse is when military bureaucracies conclude like Britain and France did in the 1920s/30s that chasing rebels made them ready for NSW war when the German mechanized, combined-arms Blitzkrieg exploded in their face in 1939 and showed them otherwise. Its the USMC "small wars" self-serving BS on a disastrous, national tragedy level: http://www.combatreform.org/colonialairpower.htm Clearly, we are screwing up in Iraq/Afghanistan with the wrong type of immature, maximize violence-for-NSW troops and need a special corps of older, more mature and culturally aware troops in M113 Gavin up-armored tracks who SMOTHER violence with combat engineering separation walls and checkpoints to keep guns and HE bombs out--who have a LOW-KEY, NON-OBNOXIOUS presence--not gyrating their hips in a Moslem country. FYI, I don't buy into Islam at all--but I also don't think we should disrespect callously someone's religion and enraging them with avoidable in-your-face, decadent behavior when it is THEY who we are trying to help make their country safe by them living at peace. http://www.combatreform.org/johnpaulvann.htm