I wouldn't put too much store on Teribus riding to the rescue of the USA - our Terry makes much of his services background as a matelot in the Royal Navy, but it's clear from the tenor of his posts that much of his career was spent polishing the ample seat of his trousers while copying out files for his superiors; large files full of things that he clearly couldn't quite grasp.
It's left him with a certain pomposity and willingness to pronounce on weighty issues without quite understanding them and a tendency to tug the forelock and doff his cap to anyone with a bit of scrambled egg.
As such his opinions are received rather than arrived at by experience. It would be quite interesting to see what his FIBUA experience is, for example (as it would have been called in his day).
Terry is not the one one on this message board who has done his bit to serve and to protect, and some here have actually experienced the sharp end rather than shining their overfilled seats. His comments on Vietnam are insulting and wide of the mark. There's not a huge difference between the men of then and now (except that now they take longer to get fit when recruited).
And sadly I fear that yet again the stupidity of commanders is going to result in a lot of those young men dying needlessly.