| I recently read the book "Making the Corps" and in it's afterword it talked about how despite the US being the greatest military in the world, it wasn't trained well enough for the type of combat they'd be seeing in Iraq. The US military took over Iraq easily within a matter of months. This is exactly what they're good at. However, they're currently over there serving as a police force. With that being said, the US armed forces are still doing a phenomenal job. We do use our tanks. You're probably getting that impression from watching our ridiculously biased media which only show the negative stuff, and make it even worse by exaggerating on the bad parts. And despite the stereotype, these terrorist organizations have very well educated and smart leaders. |