fighting a counterinsurgency war. even though they say the ground forces haven't trained extensively on an army on army conventional warfare, they say battle hardened troops tend to be more proficient across the board. there are some problems. why didn't they get a very strong? because they said when a military like the united states is preoccupied with short-term conflicts, they say it's putting some of its best people, like a general petraeus, in charge of immediate operational planning. that's sort of a brain drain on the big picture long-term thinking. they say by its very definition, you're not going to have the same creative juices going into that long-term planning. they also say there's a real problem with us, society in general, in that fewer and fewer people are really qualified to be in the military, both physically, you know, too fat, overweight, or they have criminal records or just don't have the mental skills to deal