SAN DIEGO - With American troops in the thick of the fighting in Afghanistan, the new commandant of the Marines Corps says now is not the time to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military. This is not a social thing. This is combat effectiveness," Gen. James Amos said Saturday.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Legion has called on Congress, the president and the Pentagon to carefully consider the concerns voiced by the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps regarding the lifting of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuals. The motto of the Marine Corps is 'Semper Fidelis,' which means 'always faithful,'" said National Commander Jimmie L. Foster, a Marine Corps veteran. "General James F. Amos, who was appointed by President Obama to oversee the operations of that military service, is concerned that allowing homosexuals to serve openly will hurt combat effectiveness. Just as the Marines are 'always faithful' to protecting our country, we must be always faithful to protecting them. The American Legion opposes an...
SAN DIEGO - The new commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps said Saturday that now is the wrong time to overturn the "don't ask, don't tell" policy prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military, as U.S. troops remain in the thick of war in Afghanistan. There's risk involved; I'm trying to determine how to measure that risk," Gen. James Amos said. "This is not a social thing. This is combat effectiveness. That's what the country pays its Marines to do.
In the Mediterranean, at Normandy, and across the Central and Southwest Pacific in World War II, amphibious assault was the "cutting edge of strategy," the key to "planning and decision at the operational level," and dependent upon tactical decisions for success or bloody failure. Noting that the underlying theme is maneuver warfare, Barnett cautions against an uncritical return to the beguiling concept of the indirect approach, the "enticing vision of success won at small cost in casualties [that] neglects a historical truth that conflicts between opponents roughly equal in combat effectiveness are decided by sheer attrition.
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council commended the House Armed Services Committee for approving amendments to the Defense Authorization bill that would ensure the military adheres to the Defense of Marriage Act. The measure also requires all four military service chiefs to certify that implementation of the repeal of the ban on homosexuals in the Armed Forces will not adversely affect combat readiness and effectiveness. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080930/FRCLOGO)
BEIJI, Iraq U.S. soldiers in the field were not all supportive of a Pentagon study that found improved body armor saves lives, with some troops arguing Saturday that more armor would hinder combat effectiveness. The unreleased study examined 93 fatal wounds to Marines from the start of the Iraq war in March 2003 through June 2005. It concluded 74 of them were bullet or shrapnel wounds to shoulders or torso areas unprotected by traditional ceramic armor plating.
Coining the phrase "Return on Success," [Bush] stated, "The more successful we are, the more American troops can return home. And in all we do, I will ensure that our commanders on the ground have the troops and flexibility they need to defeat the enemy." Not everyone is buying the president's glowing prognosis, however. A key opponent of [Jim Webb]'s proposal is Defense secretary Robert M. Gates, who stated that the Senate proposal was essentially a thinly disguised "backdoor way" to draw down U.S. forces. "If it were enacted, we would have force management problems that would be extremely difficult and, in fact, affect combat effectiveness and perhaps pose greater risk to our troops," he said. That assessment appears to go well beyond Gen. [David Petraeus] and the president's statemen...
The campaign to enable homosexuals to serve openly in the military has escalated beyond public relations into "perception management." The fancy new buzz phrase, dramatized in the popular novel "The Whole Truth," describes media-assisted deception on a global scale. David Baldacci, in an author's note, summarized the tactics of unscrupulous perception managers: "PMs are not spin doctors because they don't spin facts. They create facts and then sell them to the world as truth. Media reaction to a document recently released by the Michael D. Palm Center, a California-based homosexual activist group formerly known as the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military (CSSMM) presents a real-time example of "perception management." The 16-page paper, trumpeted as a "study" by th...
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