I had the opportunity to speak with a current lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Army. He was an commander in the field of armour ,no less. The discussion I had with him highlighted much of what is and was wrong with the US Army. He seemed to exemplify it in many ways. He downplayed the SADF to almost nothing, the South African Defense Forces to those not in the loop, in a trivial rather then factual manner by saying that they're 'nothing' because the US could defeat them in a conventional war. In ways he also demonstrated the sort of close minded mentality that rules the US Army. He praised the glaringly flawed status qou. He scorned the use