Frankly, I've had very little faith in modern weapon systems as they rarely perfrom as promised. When the salesmanship of contractors and Pentagon politics are your primary factors in deciding what kind of forces you wish to field, well, lets just say it gets a lot of men killed who would otherwise have lived.
Our current crop of military bigwigs are in love with technology and seem to think adding more electronic gee-gaws will ensure victory.
It reminds me of the old sci-fi story where a man defeated his enemy with an improvised hand-grenade because the alien's energy defense screen only worked against kinetic and energy weapons.
The more complicated the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the works!
I prefer our old military philosophy that gave us victory in WWII. Hit the enemy with overwhelming force and get them boots on the ground!
Remote drones, surgical strikes, and rapid-deployment are absolute B.S. that is motivated by the political correctness infecting our military. We should get back to the traditional values of more steel on target, bigger bombs, and utterly destroying the enemy.
This recent attitude of squeamishness when people die has got me puzzled as well. Tragic as it may be, that is the result of what happens in war.
If those young men of WWII were to rise up from the places where they fell and see what has become of our fighting spirit here, the Earth would be rent asunder by the sound of so many hearts breaking at once.
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Still sailing the high seas, hunting convoys with those who join me.
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