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It's not so much that the concepts were better back then (in many cases they are quite inadequate), but their way of presenting and articulating them was far better than what we get today. The...

Business-speak and its offspring have much to answer for, and this is only part of it.

I always felt that the old Small Wars Manual was very good when it came to describing its subject, and some...

I'd say based on my study as well that you're quite correct. To go back to my favorite period, Mackenzie's methods wouldn't work well against the Apache, who had none of the cultural vulnerabilities...

Mike,

There are examples from the Indian Wars that involved minimal loss of life (Mackenzie's operations during the Red River War are one example, as is Carleton's campaign against the Navaho),...

Mike,

Now you're gonna make me buy the book. And I had an out-of-print biography of James Carleton all picked out....:D

Jason,

I just wanted to toss in a bit along the lines of Marc's comments.

Concur on his point 1. Railroads were used heavily during the Civil War and also factored into Frontier troop movements...

Politicians lie. It's what they do. The level this is "exposed" has more to do with political affiliation than it does facts or at times the good of the nation. However, everyone here is expected to...

Eisenhower was also very heavy into Laos, and he got Kennedy fixated on Southeast Asia in general. It could also be argued that JFK's relationship with Diem accelerated the process.

I don't know that you can restrict input to "only those who've been there" any more than some can claim "those who've been there are too close to it." It is possible for a theorist (provided he or...

What we're seeing is a classic terrorist group generational spiral. I did some research on this kind of stuff in the 1980s, and it was often discussed then. The first generation of a terr group tends...

Marc, you're spot on regarding the symbolic level of this conflict. That's why the oaths you were talking about are so important. We have to embrace that aspect of the conflict (something that as...

Next of Kin was a pretty interesting "bad" movie. I remember seeing it on HBO or someplace a few years back and found the way they handled the family network very interesting.

Your point on the...

I have to admit right from the start that I don't totally buy into the 4GW stuff. I just consider it a more developed (full spectrum, if you will) version of 3GW. Or an adaptation of old techniques...