The equipment has been worn down some, but that just mean more money to the military industrial complex. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
Against sturdier foes armed with the very latest weaponry and a limitless budget - like Iraq, Vietnam and Afghanistan - its record isn't quite as convincing.
But no, I've never claimed the Americans were good at counter-insurgency. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
One might say there is an established doctrine of how to beat the US military: Allow them into the country and then conduct guerrilla/insurgency warfare until they leave.
(And with the high birthrate that doesn't really matter).
In more developed nations where people actually want to live reasonable lives, like in Georgia, an insurgency is hard to imagine no matter how much the neocon press has been writing about it.
And when push comes to shove, if someone starts an insurgency against you, you very likely have done something very wrong. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
when push comes to shove, if someone starts an insurgency against you, you very likely have done something very wrong.
Yeah. Like invading their country.
Seriously. The Bush administration and the GOP (neo-lib, conservative) dominance of economic policy over the last decades has gutted the US. There isn't enough money to fight two wars, maintain a global military presence, bail-out the financial sector, pay for the weapons systems now coming on-line, and re-supply & equip the Armed Forces.
