This is actually true.
No, Spartan is very right.Not really, US Army is not much more chaotic than other armed forces (and is actually less chaotic than most of them), the reason they do well in conventional warfare is due to superior logistics and overwhelming firepower.
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Not really, US Army is not much more chaotic than other armed forces (and is actually less chaotic than most of them), the reason they do well in conventional warfare is due to superior logistics and overwhelming firepower.
Low-level initiative has historically been encouraged in the US military, and is one of the reasons it tends to do so well against other combatants.
No plan survives first contact with the enemy.Yeah, we learn that Improvising and going off Doctrine is what is needed when Doctrine doesn't work. Which is most of the time in contact. Besides the standard Bounding and fix an flank, the doctrine allows for so many different things one can do.
In Intel we learn to be creative in what we think in our analysis we have to plan for the enemy to expect us to do Doctrine, but be ready for the BLUFOR to improvise
There is a reason the NCO corps of the US Military is so renowned.No plan survives first contact with the enemy.
If you plan with that in mind, as the US military does, you will be more successful
The US is able to rely on various things to succeed.If you read the history from the perspective of American enemies (WWII, Korean war, Vietnam), your enemies had generally poor opinion of your infantry but dreaded your artillery and air power.
Germans in particular were horrified at how responsive US artillery was and how much steel it could sling downrange, their experiences of Eastern front paling in comparison. Of course that view was coloured by poor performance of the green US troops in 1942, but even later in war US forces still greatly relied on pounding the living shit out of their enemies, rather than fancy out of the box manoeuvres (which is sound thinking in 9 out of 10 cases), even if they grew considerably in skill and experience (or maybe because of it). So those memes are just that - memes, USA is and was rightly feared because it had a doctrine - blast them to pieces (just like everyone else) and had both industrial might and logistic capabilities to carry out their operations according to that doctrine in a greater scale than anyone else. Fancy out of the box stuff is just a dessert after the main dish fills the gullet.
If you read the history from the perspective of American enemies (WWII, Korean war, Vietnam), your enemies had generally poor opinion of your infantry but dreaded your artillery and air power.
Germans in particular were horrified at how responsive US artillery was and how much steel it could sling downrange, their experiences of Eastern front paling in comparison. Of course that view was coloured by poor performance of the green US troops in 1942, but even later in war US forces still greatly relied on pounding the living shit out of their enemies, rather than fancy out of the box manoeuvres (which is sound thinking in 9 out of 10 cases), even if they grew considerably in skill and experience (or maybe because of it). So those memes are just that - memes, USA is and was rightly feared because it had a doctrine - blast them to pieces (just like everyone else) and had both industrial might and logistic capabilities to carry out their operations according to that doctrine in a greater scale than anyone else. Fancy out of the box stuff is just a dessert after the main dish fills the gullet.
Artillery shells are cheaper than the lives of our soldiers. Germans were just jelly of our logistics. look at what they had at the time. good in quality but not in enough quantity to make a difference.If you read the history from the perspective of American enemies (WWII, Korean war, Vietnam), your enemies had generally poor opinion of your infantry but dreaded your artillery and air power.
Germans in particular were horrified at how responsive US artillery was and how much steel it could sling downrange, their experiences of Eastern front paling in comparison. Of course that view was coloured by poor performance of the green US troops in 1942, but even later in war US forces still greatly relied on pounding the living shit out of their enemies, rather than fancy out of the box manoeuvres (which is sound thinking in 9 out of 10 cases), even if they grew considerably in skill and experience (or maybe because of it). So those memes are just that - memes, USA is and was rightly feared because it had a doctrine - blast them to pieces (just like everyone else) and had both industrial might and logistic capabilities to carry out their operations according to that doctrine in a greater scale than anyone else. Fancy out of the box stuff is just a dessert after the main dish fills the gullet.
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