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Somehow the Army went from "close with and destroy the enemy." to "close with and make him tap out."
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No they didn't.
They still vastly prefer airstrikes, artillery, mortars, close armor support, grenades, machine gunners, snipers, assault rifles, pistols, bayonets, and knives as the progression before resorting to that last ditch "control him until your buddy can stick him from behind" philosophy. The primary mission has always been killing people and breaking things. Trouble is, now there's a news camera taping it and exploiting them for it when they do.