Chinese and American training
From an interview with Adm Keating:
In assessing Chinese power, many Western defense specialists focus on missiles, aircraft and warships but neglect intangibles such as training. Chinese fighter pilots, for instance, typically get seven or eight hours of flying time a month; their American counterparts get 20 to 22 hours a month in a physically demanding regime.Reminiscent of Boyd: people, ideas, things. In that order.
Sounds an awful lot like “Humans are more important than hardware” to me - one of the “SOF Truths.” Perhaps you, too, drunk the Koolaid, you just haven’t realized it yet.
Comment by whosdat — October 19, 2009 @ 1:18 pm
…and if you believe that SOF invented that insight, then you’ve ingested far more than the lethal dose of Koolaid.
;-)
~W
Comment by Wiggins — October 20, 2009 @ 12:43 pm