Army begins training for next war – may be much different, bigger: Selective Service reignites registration campaign

October 2015 – WASHINGTON – Are they ready to start thinking about the next war – maybe even The Big One? You hope it wouldn’t be World War III, but you have to prepare for the worst,’ said Lt. Gen. Robert B. Brown, commanding General of the Army’s Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth. ‘We need to be ready to play against the pro teams, not just the amateurs.’ By that he means a nation such as North Korea, even Russia. A ‘pro team’ could even be a band of radicals with the means to acquire nation-like resources in a hurry – such as those fighters who call themselves the Islamic State, recruiting through the global reach of the Web. In Army-speak, the training needed to fight that brand of enemy is shifting away from ‘mission-specific’ toward ‘decisive action.’ And that requires the reacquainting of soldiers with epic battle plans featuring tanks, surface-to-air missiles, Apache choppers and military precision exercised over a broad and rugged terrain.

This post was published at UtopiatheCollapse on October 4, 2015.