Should Obama fire McChrystal

[ROYAL BLUE]

I dunno what military you were a part of, but 'emotion' don't have a dayumn thing to do with the decision-making those troops make out there........

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Emotion

Emotions play a powerful, central role in everyday life and, not surprisingly, they play an equally central role in military planning and training. Emotions shape how people perceive the world, they bias beliefs, and they influence our decisions and in large measure guide how people adapt their behavior to the physical and social environment. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12023&page=55

 

[crazylegs]

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Emotion

Emotions play a powerful, central role in everyday life and, not surprisingly, they play an equally central role in military planning and training. Emotions shape how people perceive the world, they bias beliefs, and they influence our decisions and in large measure guide how people adapt their behavior to the physical and social environment. http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12023&page=55

Try posting the REST of that definition again in context...

Commanders, while shielding their own troops from stress, should attempt to promote terror and disintegration in the opposing force…Some examples of stress-creating actions are attacks on his command structure; the use of artillery, air delivered weapons, smoke; deception; psychological warfare; and the use of special operations forces. Such stress-creating actions can hasten the destruction of the enemy’s capability for combat.

In laymans terms, the folks that are normally on the winning side of those equations executed what their ordered to execute with the least amount of emotion or stress involved..The idea is warfare that plays on your opponents lack of emotional control while minimizing that of your own..That's what Special Forces (Specifically the SEAL folks that we've been talking about for the last half a thread) are TRAINED to do.

They are TRAINED to be as analytical and as EMOTIONLESS as possible in order to accomplish the missions assigned to them. Emotion-fed actions for these guys will get them and their shipmates killed.

Folks that have served and KNOW what these guys do know that different types of soldiers have specific missions that they have to perform a specific way. Logical thinking has ALWAYS been emphasized to that effect.

For all of the stuff you posted, what does that have to do with a SEAL operator overstepping his bounds and doing something that he was NOT ORDERED to do?

Was randomly punching the cat in the stomach a direct order from a superior? Like I said, dude wouldn't be standing before the man if he WAS following orders and showing the discipline he's been trained to have.

 

[ROYAL BLUE]

I dunno what military you were a part of, but 'emotion' don't have a dayumn thing to do with the decision-making those troops make out there........

You are the one who made the comment above. Are you not? All I wanted to do was point out that your comment was wrong........that's all.

Having said that, the SEAL acted "NATURALLY" on "EMOTION", and was not wrong for punching a murdering terrorist in the stomach. The evil terrorist murdered innocent American civilians and deserve to die.......period. IMO, the SEAL controlled his "EMOTIONS" by letting that piece of schit live.