So many comments are writing this guy off due to age, rather than listening to the good points he has made. The bottom line is that strategy in conflict is now much broader and expansive than anyone can even imagine - even more so than he has mentioned here

@rebeccariordan6391

3 жыл бұрын

He was a cadet, & had not yet served or experienced the real Army at the time of this briefing.

@Rains215

3 ай бұрын

That doesn't matter because he still made good points.@@rebeccariordan6391

Excellent Murph!! I came up with a similar path in my book Path to Victory America's Army and the Revolution in Human Affairs in 2002 and updated 2013.

Wow, as a former Army officer I have to say Danahy is right on target. I see this in the civilian world too. Excellent talk.

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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2 жыл бұрын

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Interesting hints. Good points. we have also to get rid of a series of strategic paradigms referring to obsolete theories (e.g. Clausewitz: from Vietnam on - including Iraq and Afghanistan as we see in these days - showed it is totally useless). The world changes. Not only outside the military.

Keep in mind that war is a political act....we mobilize if/when our political managers call upon us. It's not the military's role to dictate WHEN and WHERE the military is to be utilized...we dictate HOW they will be utilized based on the defined policy objectives given by the political leadership.

If you read this.. yes to focus on what you are good at is good...BUT should also challenge yourself..especially in your youth. To help yourself to understand your colleagues and superiors situation..which helps you do your own job better

I can only imagine this cadet showing up to his platoon on his first day as a butter bar saying "Listen to me, I have a lot of experience on strategic military operations." 😆

@josephchellis4117

3 жыл бұрын

He's intelligence so more likely his staff section

@rebeccariordan6391

3 жыл бұрын

I hope he is a good listener....

@sfinn4540

2 жыл бұрын

yes......Super super butter bar......hurts my ears

Danish dude here. KFOR 1, Multinational Brigade North, Danish battalion. Back in the 10s I had developed the core principles for a new doctrine. So I contacted the Army Combat School here in Denmark. I wanted to find out if they could use it for something. They told me they were not interested. Why you may ask. Well, they received all their doctrines from the Pentagon. Now, I understand the idea of having similar procedures, however, when any NATO member stops its own intellectual capital, because of the intellectual checkpoint called pentagon, we have a problem. In every NATO country.

I would have clapped for his presentation lol true story love it

On point

Bro this video is 🔥 💯 truth

Setting objectives is strategy. Target selection is usually a combination of tactics and strategy. Execution of mission requires a combination of tactics. Strategic work requires both piles of accurate information at ones command and insight that can only be learned from keeping a hand in tactical field work. I am not sure if this is helpful, but right now most of what is around me is tactical.

Some modern examples would be expected to define his point yet may also jeopardize his position and wearing a uniform he appears as an actively serving soldier, that may have limit his abilities in providing an "approved" presentation.

@steelwarrior105

6 жыл бұрын

Dustin Westerman yes, UCMJ prevents him from touching politics in most aspects

@shockmonkeyradio7128

6 жыл бұрын

He's a cadet. And I doubt he'll ever be a 'soldier' in the truest sense of the word. He's probably going to end up working in some Army hospital treating PTSD. Important work, but he doesn't strike me as a boots-on-the-ground guy.

I know three CPTs getting out during COVID. People are literally walking away from a guaranteed paycheck to leave the organization...

Wish people would watch this now

What you've said really happening now.

Wow nice

I disagree that the US army was set up before to decisively win wars and now it isnt. I do think that there enemy(s) has changed. For instance in WW2 there was two clear sides with clear objectives, but in places like Vietnam, Afganistan and Iraq the objective is less clear and less likely to result in a decisive victory. You can say we have more firepower, but it is useless if you are using it on an enemy that doesnt respect the basic conventions of war.

The romans survived and conquered because they adapted.

@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus6627

5 жыл бұрын

Thant Zaw Win You are correct. Tho nothing survives. Everything in the Universe will end, nothing survives.

@arcade4911

5 жыл бұрын

Air???

@tothgyorgyi2932

3 жыл бұрын

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@marcosenarosa4877

Жыл бұрын

@@luciusquinctiuscincinnatus6627 the Romans could have adapted to fight their government held them back

Perhaps a German General Staff model, with "cognitively adaptable" junior officers doing meaningful and useful work at the Pentagon and DAHQ and "cognitively conservative" officers remaining in the line.

Good effort for class assignment, but not enough for contributing in Theories.

Tons of cognitively conservative people in the comments. I understand you loud and clear. This makes a ton of sense to me.

Know your men .. assign them correctly

@claudeyaz

2 жыл бұрын

Also.. watch "why more successful in ww2 " KZread video..shows how afganistan had a different leader commander every freaking year...va ww2. Where George Marshall's genius...knew to relieve and re-assign generals..if they didn't have success within 90 or so days.. re assigned elsewhere etc Now a days? Years of stagnation...and no punishments for it..but beurocrats larping as generals..

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Good presentation, but quite opinionated from a non- prior service cadet. I hope your career is fulfilling and you aren't one of the '5 & done' statistics. Be who you would want to work for/with. Always learning.

You bring up some very valid points, however, having the privilege of working with the Army in joint operations you should do a little more research and get some fleet experience before you give a presentation like this because a lot of your information is inaccurate.

@alittel07

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps inaccurate, but definitely incomplete. Quite a few vague conclusions about the last 50+ years of warfighting without any concrete examples or themes linking them together. The First Gulf War was a resounding success - what's the difference between it, OIF, and OEF? It was a solid presentation for a West Point Cadet, but it would've been better if he acknowledged that the nature of the conflicts in which the US Military finds itself in today are completely different than the early 20th century. An example? America's current adversaries do not have "centers of gravity" to target and destroy, which is essentially the purpose of the structure of the American military.

"We have failed to live up to our potential" "The Army is in crisis" This is clearly a smart kid. And he may have even gotten an A for this paper in school. But this is a KID!! Yes: Strategy is more complexed. Because Conflict does not Equal Warfighting!!! I have a huge problem with an LT telling the Army how to staff and train itself. This is what happens when you give every kid on the the pee-wee soccer team a trophy. He needs to learn to be an officer ,to lead in tactical environments and grow up! 33 years ago , as a new 2LT i sounded the same. I was one of the Cognitively adaptable. The Coservatives lead formation the adaptables write the plans. When he grows up he will see that. Finally NOBODY makes GO easily!!!

How about the first gulf war? Didn’t the US win that?

@echalone

4 жыл бұрын

Go ask the Kurds that ^^

Also.. watch "why more successful in ww2 " KZread video..shows how afganistan had a different leader commander every freaking year...va ww2. Where George Marshall's genius...knew to relieve and re-assign generals..if they didn't have success within 90 or so days.. re assigned elsewhere etc Now a days? Years of stagnation...and no punishments for it..but beurocrats larping as generals..

The US military is trying to provide a military solution to a political situation. Military funding has been focused on acquiring hardware to fight conventional war. The US can destroy a countries infrastructure but can not win the minds of the people. This allows a power outside the US influence to help the country at war with the US to be influenced by that helping country and create a situation that is against the US strategic interests. The US investments in hardware can destroy anything but has zero ability to bring a country to be influenced by the US. The CIA practices regime change around the world but creates dictatorships not democracies. Democracies respect the will of the people not the will of foreign power. Only dictatorships can do that so the US establishes dictatorships and the US military is an army of occupation, not an army of liberation. Big difference between WW 2 and every war since.

And Korea , is not finish yet ? , , , , that's why it was not mentioned. ,! !

@maxjones503

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. By no means a victory.

Stopped at 4 minutes because I disagree with so much of what this guy is saying. Intervene in Crimea? That's like Russia intervening in Cuba. It ain't gonna work. The US did not win a decisive victory in WWI and WWII. A coalition of world powers in a state of total war won a decisive victory in those wars. And in those wars those powers were willing to accept massive casualties. The difference now is that America does not have an appetite for casualties of that magnitude and they do not play as nicely with others... And those others are probably not as keen to dedicate the resources that the US does to the wars that the US wants to fight. Also, in those wars western nations who wanted to be liberated were being liberated. In the wars which followed democracy was being forced on populations without a good understanding of what those populations wanted. Also, no Marshall Plan was ever set up in those subsequent wars.

@hephaestus511

4 жыл бұрын

The US should’ve stayed out and let Germany win WW1, that way WWII wouldn’t happen, the Nazis wouldn’t rise to power, and the bankers wouldn’t get their way.

I don't think he is an appropriate authority for this subject.

So what has happened to this kid? Desk job?

well i think he need some citation to make his argument on personalities not sound like his personal opinion. Like, this guy, a scientist, says cognitively adaptable people are blah blah blah. It would have make his talk much more convincing.

@Juan-ls6xv

6 жыл бұрын

Nguyen Chanh pretty sure his rank says it all, specially since he looks so young

@shockmonkeyradio7128

6 жыл бұрын

He's just a cadet...he doesn't really know what he's talking about yet. Once he's a Captain or Major I bet he'll watch this video and laugh like I did during that "personality test" idea part...

If we allow holograms to be made public everything will go to hologram life via surrogate life or some life. I’m sure some life is best option and hover cars will be awaiting us with hover streets over old ground streets for emergency landings. We are waiting how to make the ground absorbed for collisions on what we saw in past and imagery that few have but they have good ideas. My idea is a new water /gel type the same gel we humans will consume to change our anatomy since this gel will be most sufficient for personal sponges called cells. Muscles stretched will not sweat out nutrients as fast and take the best growth and rest periods like hibernation like for 10 hours and live longer days. Time of days will change to for currency reasons.

Not even in the military yet and already knows stuff no one else in the world knows. Never even seen combat or the conflicts soldiers have to deal with overseas and says soldiers are failing and its a sin. I thought all Ted talks were amazing until now.

@josephchellis4117

3 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

@rebeccariordan6391

3 жыл бұрын

He's stepping on a lot of toes!

So the cadet is going to tell us about Iraq and Afghanistan, and leadership while he is at it.....

States join WW2 past half way, was fighting mostly with Japanese, while most heavy casualties where on the Nazi front. Soviets were those who by far won the war gains Nazis. I think the speaker should first acknowledge some facts before bringing all this state honor on stage

@steelwarrior105

6 жыл бұрын

Andrey Godkin that does not germain to his points.

@targetacquisition7008

5 жыл бұрын

Hold up ! America entered the war in 1942. Sure the eastern front was brutal and you guys absorbed the bulk of the German forces. But the great victories of the eastern campaign had not yet happened ! That started in 1943. Yeah we crushed the Japanese in the Pacific no doubt. But our invasions of N Africa & Sicily and Italy and 2 invasions of France and of course the Allied bombing campaign - Americans during the day & the British at night crippled German production capacity. We supplied the Soviets with more than 50% of your war materials. Come on... He wasn't giving any slight to mother Russia, he was merely stating the facts !!!

Why doesn’t this cadet rack up some time first and actually experience the service and then provide some actual experienced insight. Senior NCO’s eat butter bars that spout this drivel alive.

@arjanvantongerlo882

4 жыл бұрын

Because he has a point. It is well known the way military intervention is indeed has changed over the past 20 years. Seniors with decades of experience have just as much knowledge of this subject as he has, because they're stuck in their old ways. Throughout military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq it has become very apparent that the modern military culture needs to change, and new blood is a great way to kickstart that change.

@rebeccariordan6391

3 жыл бұрын

This must have been a thesis project or something because he's very opinionated about something he hasn't experienced yet.

@josephchellis4117

3 жыл бұрын

Ok boomer

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@thatfatguyinmcdonaldseatin6389

3 жыл бұрын

It’s called a Ted talk for a reason it’s not for 2 year olds my guy

When you say 'we failed', you are insulting many of your commanders & leaders, be careful. Just saying...

Rubbish Cheers from west Africa 🦅