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Sounds to me like they are recognizing the need for greater defensive capability that is effective in the current environment, or rather a great "counter-occupation" capability; and less of an armor...

Hi, my name is Bob, and I am a strategist.

At least I try to be, guilty as charged. But with that said, I do not buy into the conventional wisdom on what strategy is or is not; or who does it or...

Bill,

You're twisting my words to fit your paradigm.

For example, I never said that insurgency does not require leadership, or ideology for that matter. In fact, I believe that both are...

Ahh, brother WILF. As you focus more on the military aspect of insurgency and counterinsurgency, you are more, I believe, of the counterinsurgent camp. "Defeat the insurgent and defeat the...

Woah...been away from this thread a while, and come back and see I have a little cleaning up to do!

My comments about "one-eyed man" in no way intended to disparrage Frank Hoffman. More my...

Just because the Brits gained a great deal of experience in suppressing colonial uprisings, in no means makes them experts at true "COIN." Similarly, just because the US has gone to the school of...

Concur with WILF.

I've challenged several very savy proponents of this concept to explain it to me, and none have been able to penetrate my thick head significantly enough to show me not only...

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

Apparently, Frank Hoffman has been designated by DoD as the provervbial "one-eyed man," as he came along with his Jerry Seinfield-like...

We're still pressing full steam ahead trying to make a Cold War strategy work in a rapidly changing environment.

Many military commentors and analysts who also take the correctness of that...

The difference between being an Idealist in the real world and a realist in the real world, perhaps? I could tone down my positions to be more realist, but I think it is important to set the bar...

This one line says a great deal: "Success in battle is based on breaking the enemies will to resist."

I would just add from my perspective as a guy who spends a lot of time and energy working on...

4. Employment of forces in the operational area through movement in combination with fires to achieve a position of advantage in respect to the enemy in order to accomplish the mission. See also...

Ok, this is my hip-pocket answer without looking to formal definitions, so assess accordingly:

On a scale of "Strategic-Operational-Tactical" these two constructs would best fit within...

Ken,

I agree they did not bring some new form of warfare to the fight, but they did come wrapped in a new form of quasi-state status that the policy types haven't figured out how to deal with...

Words are important.

When one takes a position that "War has changed," and the pentagon buys into it and begins to restructure itself to fight and think about this new type of war, I believe you...

In my opinion this entire argument continues to chase the wrong line of logic. It is not a case of warfare changing. What we are experiencing is a case of the environment in which warfare occurs...