Isn’t the entire history of snipers in the US military essentially…
We don’t need no stinkin’ snipers
WAR WERE DECLARED
Shit, we need some snipers
Peace were declared
We don’t need no stinkin’ snipers
WAR WERE DECLARED
Shit, we need some snipers
Peace were declared…
Repeat
Repeat
Yes.
But if one also looks at our history, we generally get our asses handed to ourselves in opening engagements before troops, the military leadership and our systems/equipment/training/doctrine catch up. Usually supported by an industrial and resources base the likes of which noone in the world has.
However, China has managed to absorb most of our industrial base... and the commie leftist greenie shit-weasels have placed our resources out of reach... because you can't drill, dig, extract, mow, cut or otherwise harvest anything other than the fucking organic arugula that Obama wants on his salad.
So if we get in anything... Ukraine, Taiwan, some third world shithole proxy war... we don't have the troops we had in Grenada, Panama, Gulf, Afghan and Iraq. Well, maybe the NCO's. Who have not been purged or purged themselves out for good reason. (See Woke Sr. Officer Corps above). Or due to vax mandates. And I'm not saying they aren't amazing kids for the most part in our forces. But if they aren't trained, led, motivated and brought up from day 1 of boot camp to be warriors... they are going to die. Horribly and rapidly.
Teaching them non-binary saluting and that fags in foxholes is core to our readiness... is not making them warriors. It is making them wimps.
While our privates and specialists and lance corporals and-5's and O1's are being taught to be inclusive and are pinning pride flags on their barracks... and yearning to go to a Drag Dining In...
The Chinese are teaching their 100 million surplus mouths that killing is what they are put on earth for... and that to honor their grandparents, they will walk through a minefield holding nothing more than a pointed stick in order to kill Yanquees.
So it's bigger than snipers and scouts. Will the need come back? Yes. Will the skill be retained... actually it will. In the alumni and retirees and veterans who will be called back to train new generations. That is, assuming that after the first engagements there are enough Soldiers and Marines left to train. Because the first engagements will be disasterous.
Just to put things in perspective when I say 'bloody...' America had a national hissy fit when we lost 50,000 troops over almost 15 years in VN. On average 10 died each day through the duration of the conflict. In the 20 years of Afghanistan and Iraq, we tragically lost 7000 troops. That's an average of less than one lost American a day.
On Tarawa we lost more than 1000 Marines in 76 hours. On Peleliu, in 45 Days, we lost 2200. On Iwo Jima, in 36 days, 7,000 Marines were killed. On Okinawa, in 80 Days we lost 12,500 killed soldiers and Marines. That's against an enemy that was on the ropes, starving, under-equipped, fighting to the death.... against the well-trained, well-supplied, well-motivated and brilliantly led Marines and Soldiers. That's 150+ telegrams a day. In an era with no TV and a country that was willing to see it through.
I won't even go into the Meuse-Argonne where we lost 26,000 dead in a few weeks. Or the Civil War where battles were in the thousands in a single day. Or the fact that casualties were 5x the dead. The above numbers are deaths. Not wounded, burned, amputated, TBI'd, etc.
If we really go to war now in the all-out conflict that the Biden admin and globalists seem to want, it will not be a low intensity conflict. And the numbers will make the above KIA look tame. Not because we aren't well-equipped or our troops aren't patriotic. But because they will have been killed by policies that turned them into cannon fodder instead of warriors.
Oh and... I'm just an historian/futurist type. Some of you with more 'direct' experience... please prove me wrong. I soooo want to be wrong.
Sirhr
