If you take a look at average guitar lessons prices, I can tell you that they tend to be quite a bit more expensive than an average guitar lesson (for starters it’s pretty hard to find guitar lessons at the price of your guitar). My guess is that this is due to a lot of people just learning to play on the cheap.
This is especially true if you’ve never been to guitar lessons in your life, or if you just want some hands-on guitar lessons, but you didn’t even do homework in high school (I remember hearing about people who just learned guitar in high school and never paid for any lessons). When you hear the price being mentioned at a guitar lesson, this is a sure sign it’s a bad deal.
For decades, the U.S. military’s elite and most lethal teams of pilots and SEALs have specialized in the most lethal and effective methods of fighting in the war on terror. After 9/11, U.S. military leaders began to rethink the concept of an operational SEAL team: Instead of a small unit focusing on a mission, those units had to fight with dozens-and-then-hundreds of people to capture and kill a terrorist, as opposed to an all-out assault. This meant moving away from a single-combat doctrine to something more like a multi-combat doctrine.
But even with the shift to multi-combat, U.S. military leaders insisted that multi-combat teams of SEALs would never be as lethal an option for operations against al-Qaeda as the elite team that was once America’s number one combat force. One reason why? They were seen as expendable.
For one thing, the team members had to be highly trained killers who could easily hold their own in a firefight, often with more than one enemy who had not even seen the light of day. These teams also did not enjoy as many personal camaraderie or leadership experience as a traditional special operations unit, where the team leader will often know everyone on it. Moreover, an operational SEAL team can require years of training and experience with the same weapons and tactics. (In contrast, special operations units typically receive just a few months of training and practice with a weapon or tactic.)
The lack of experience often led to an unhealthy emphasis on the idea of fighting as “single combat.” In an attempt to increase their performance, these teams developed the notion of “the lone wolf,” a term from the military that refers to an individual who goes