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Olds was a strong advocate of the importance of tactical air power and maintaining conventional warfare proficiency during the Cold War, in an era when the Air Force's priority doctrine was on nuclear warfare.
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One would think, in the case of Afghanistan, the U.S. would be well aware of its enemy's proficiency at guerrilla warfare, considering the CIA helped to inveigle the Soviets into invading Afghanistan, which President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski saw as an opportunity for "giving the USSR its Vietnam War".
In order to achieve a high proficiency in the skills of warfare, warriors also adopted various ascetical practices.
However, considering U.S. proficiency in the development of airpower (manned and unmanned), precision guided munitions, undersea warfare capabilities, and shipbuilding there may be a range of existing and viable future weapon systems that are more operationally flexible and also more cost-effective than land-based IRBMs.
The QDR stresses the need for stabilisation operations, or peacekeeping; and to improve America's somewhat limited proficiency at this art, the QDR wants to increase by a third the number of psychological-warfare and civic-affairs specialists.
The swift military victory in Iraq has raised a critical question for the future of armed combat: Has the United States attained a new level of proficiency that will transform the nature of battle much as the machine gun, the tank and air power transformed warfare in earlier days?
With proficiency comes progress.
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Proficiency engenders confidence.
"That's not proficiency".
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