arcane1 (23,536 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025123685
Stupid question: What's the difference between "combat" and "targeted and precise military action?"
Does the latter mean long-distance actions like missiles, drones, etc, that don't involve ground troops?
Usually there is an added discriptive to combat; Ground Combat, Aerial Combat, Non-kinetic 'War-fare" etc.
Targeted and Precise military action is Pentagon speak for blowing shit up with cruise missiles and drones.
La Lioness Priyanka (47,253 posts)
1. i think its when we pretend that if we bomb people from far away, it's not war
ground troops = combat. precise military action = drones.
War is either kinetic or non-kinetic and covers a whole range of items including political and social actions. DUmpmonkiez don't understand war any better than more primitives who get their talking points from cable news.
blm (91,532 posts)
6. No. Precise military action is more targeted - like the BinLaden mission.
It means highly trained special ops going after specific targets instead of widespread carpet-bombing and sweeps of entire areas ala Bush.
Nooo... not exactly. I don't remember us carpet bombing either Iraq or Afghanistan. Is that another 'change to history' we can look forward to under the rule of the leftists?
trof (45,209 posts)
10. "Guys in the back of pick up trucks"
What a retired general said on NPR today.
"If we're using drones to go after guys in the back of pick up trucks, that's not gonna work."
Of course what the military talking head meant was you can't win an unconventional war by conventional means... you really can't when you refuse to understand who the enemy is.
