Good News But Keep Marketing
Overall I would rate the program as quite good in exploring COIN, information, information technology, and the human dimensions that cannot be rendered in some form of technology or software. The comment by the technite that this "video is real time intelligence and does not need any analysls to be acted on" says it all. Does anyone remember the inflatable tank army that George Patton commanded in the UK--the one that the Germans were convinced would make the main invasion?
The use of Kilcullen's 28 articles to frame the program was of course an excellent and equally obvious idea for Australian Broadcasting Corp. They would have been roasted in effigy had they overlooked the role of a native son in all of this.
On a specific point, I found Luttwak as an avowed neocon ridiculous in his admonition to "not act like an Empire" when that is very much the central reality of neocon thought. My how 4 years of reality takes the bloom off of fanciful thinking on international relations. Where he really showed his true colors was his response that we shuld "leave and bomb them" citing the attacks on Libya as a precedent. Somehow he forgot that we used such attacks rather than invade because we were not likely top convert Quadafi to our democratic ideals. But I wander and I admit it...
On SWJ, Dave and Bill, you both made cogent points and I wondered as I listenened how much got left on the cutting room floor. As good as you were and as dynamic as SWJ has been, we have to keep marketing. Personally I sometimes use the "two by four and the mule" technique to get Soldiers' attention--I include officers in the grouping by the way.
Best and great job, guys!
Tom