Remembering the right thing

Today is rememberance day, where the UK and the commonwealth remember it's fallen on it's wars, from the first world war forward. But just as important as remembering those who went before is remembering those who still fight today. But we should remember the right thing. The most important lesson learned is that wars change, and that fighting a current war the way we would have fought one in the past may easily lead to disaster. This is not just a question of technology, but also about culture, society and institutions. Understanding these changes means understanding how to besr organize our armed forces to best fight them. As TPBM says, we have long been building one military while running another, something which in the end will hurt. The hurt will hopefully never reach the proportions of the great war, but may yet cause us much unwarranted suffering. Despite what the officialstory says, we are still organized and structured to fight an updated version of WW2, with only minor updates made after the 1991 Gulf War. We need to take that final step into fourth generation warfare and accept the core lessons of the past few years. That way we can better avoid being similarly unprepared as our forefathers were in 1914, and there cannot be any better forms of rememberance!