You didn't follow how i countered his fallacy. Look again:
You didn't counter it at all. You accused a member of the SOF community of not knowing what was going on, or caring about the lives of those in the SOF community, because he was trying to point out to you how you were incorrect about something.
Perhaps we can get back to the topic and stop speculating about my life experience, of which i offer no knowledge here?
You are at the point in
40 Year Old Virgin where Steve Carell describes a breast as feeling like a bag of sand, and then angrily insists he knows what he's talking about. It's pretty blatantly obvious to anyone with experience in this thread that you lack it.
And that's fine. The vast majority of American citizens lack experience in this. But maybe you shouldn't try to explain it to those who don't.
If that were true, you could rebut the content.
:shrug: and have. I've given you opportunities to provide evidence. Thus far you have not managed to accomplish this.
Do you support the move to piss off Chad?
I find Chad's irritation at the travel restrictions completely unrelated to the event which occurred in Western Niger.
Can you guarantee to me that there were no political motives relating to the $57b tax dispute with Exxon that influenced their decision?
How is that related to the events which occurred in Western Niger?
It was really just an example of what i see as careless mismanagement
FID in Niger was a good mission, and SOCAF was correct to support it. Mismanagement occurred in the context of this, but you don't seem to know where, as you suggest that...
When the incentives from upper management are unrealistic, middle management makes mistakes. Like telling a reconnaissance advise and assist to move into a village on bad intel in the hopes of making progress on kill-or-capture of a high value target, which then sets them up to be ambushed.
Who do you think came up with the CONOP for this patrol, Absent? Who do you think made the decision to go back to the first village, or to stay there and be delayed, or to return along the same route by which they had come?
I already cited that where the leadership criticized how ISR is only at 20-30% of the resources AFRICOM needs
Yup.
Post 96:
We absolutely have an ISR shortage in AFRICOM. This is partly because CENTCOM (understandably) takes precedence when it comes to asset allocation, and partly because AFRICOM is just so freaking big. If there is bad weather over a target in Syria, it's a small matter to shift the bird to Iraq. A bird supposed to fly over Libya can't support Niger like that. It has, as near as I am aware, approximately nothing to do with Chadian ground forces...
So if you are looking to increase the DOD budget so we can invest in more ISR assets, I am 100% in favor. If, however, you are going to try to claim that the Chadian's shifting of ground troops from Diffa back across the border somehow means we had less ISR in Western Niger during this particular mission..... :shrug:
Do you think pissing Chad off would help that issue?
I think it appears to have had zero impact on that issue.
They could have had better intel
Ok. How would having Chadian troops in Diffa countering Boko Haram there have meant better intel on ISGS in Western Niger?
they could have had more troops
This is where the whole knowing-what-you're-talking-about thing comes into play. This is a classic SF mission, meant for an A-Team, which we do with A-Teams and comparable sized echelons of other SOF units (MARSOC, NAVSPECWARCOM) all over the globe.
But we'll put that aside. How would having the Chadians on the Nigerien side of the border countering Boko Haram in the Diffa region, have meant more troops available to conduct the FID mission in Western Niger?
they could have had better vehicles,
How would having the Chadians on the Nigerien side of the border countering Boko Haram in Diffa have meant better vehicles for a FID mission in Western Niger?
You are admitting that we have a lack of information, therefore we should presume guilt
No more than the requirement to show your ID to board a plane here in the US is the presumption that one is a terrorist.
you're saying it's foolish to give people the benefit of the doubt
When those people are coming from areas with a heavy VEO presence and we cannot reliably identify them, that certainly can be foolish.