"War is Good": Psycho American General

[Bhaisahab]

New Army Chief Sees Opportunity in Wars

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are stretching the Army razor-thin, but the service's top general says the stress also has produced abler soldiers and opened a rare opportunity to change how the Army organizes to train and fight.

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It also is giving Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, who spent much of his career in the secretive Army Special Forces, a chance to instill in soldiers a "warrior ethos," or fighting spirit.

The wars have forced the Army to deploy all 10 of its combat divisions, call up tens of thousands of reservists, prohibit soldiers from retiring, and at the same time keep its commitments as peacekeeper in the Balkans and defender in South Korea.

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"War is a tremendous focus," he said. As a large institution, the Army "tends to perfect what it knows," he said, rather than seek change. "Now we have this focusing opportunity, and we have the fact that (terrorists) have actually attacked our homeland, which gives it some oomph."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=5&u=/ap/20040122/ap_on_re_us/schoomaker_interview

emphasis mine.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Rather sadly, in a sense he is right. We need a warrior class.

But what he fails to think, is of the balance. We need Peace makers too, with a comparable budget. and why not? Isn't Peace more important?>