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This article may not qualify as plagerism but it is pretty darn close!
Read "The Air Campaign" planning for combat. Chapter 6: Air Interdiction!

Link to Warden interviewon Strategic Compressio or Winning Fast. Ends with some advice to the President!


http://www.westernjournalism.com/retired-colonels-advice-obama-deal-isis-now-cant-wait/

Curmudgy,

I think they are more guiding precepts or prime directives based upon his experiences. But from the Link to the article you posted at War On The Rocks you must be a Star Trek fan. so...

Pretty much the same thing for some time. If you listen to the radio interview he brings these same points up during that interview. Also if you look at panel #2 of the PPT I posted he explains that...

Responses in order of the questions:

1-Your right on this point. Which is why Warden points out in the PPT that the Peace plan comes first then the War Plan then decide if you need an Air plan or...

Curmudgy,
I don't think you had joined this discussion group at the time so you are probably not familiar with some of Warden's earlier comments that I posted from years ago when this Fiasco first...

Steve,
I have read it and if you remember I was the person that found Gray's report and posted the link to the PDF download when it first came out.

1-So from memory Gray also points out that...

Here is a much better Youtube link to the radio interview of Colonel Warden that goes along with the above listed article. if you listen closely and are familiar with real systems thinking you will...

Curmudgy,
Your kidding right!!

No he doesn't know much about insurgencies and he is not interested in holding somebody else's terrain for which they will fight to the death...

Steve,
I have know idea where this idea about Airpower being everything came from but it is NOT TRUE! He has never said that or written that to my knowledge. What he has said and does believe is...

Link to article and interview of Retired USAF Colonel John Warden, author of "The Enemy Is A System" and Winning Strategist from Gulf War One on how to handle Iraq crisis by using Strategy and...

Haven't forgotten about this thread but tornado's hit Alabama hard last night so it may be a couple of days before I finish. Airpower could have made a big difference and we need more advanced...

In 1947 LTG James M. Gavin would(former Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division) publish a book called "Airborne Warfare." It was about how the future of our country depended upon Air Power. An exert...

During WW2 we produced many specialized vehicles that could maneuver to the right position in order to put lots of dumb steel missiles on target. The vehicles were more important than the steel...

pvebber, it has been a great discussion. You raised many good points and I was tempted to just respond to the question of can Air power do it all, but perhaps it is better to start with a little...

Until then look at this...ipad and unmanned drone at the office:eek:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc-DX3S_QMw&feature=feedrec_grec_index

pvebber, my local electric company has scheduled a power outage (on purpose:eek:) tomorrow for about 8 hours, but like MacArthur I shall return.

The late 1950's Mike Wallace interview of Alexander de Seversky sponsored by Phillip Morris cigarettes.



http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/seversky_alexander_de.html

I think there are situations where we (US) try to solve political and economic situations by dumping it on the military instead of actually solving the real problem.



There is a bit more to...

Ohhhhh yes it does!:D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTd471QNwTc&feature=related

In this case it is neither. The Admiral (very correctly) realizes he is reporting to a bunch of Politicos who's major concern is getting reelected. So the best thing to do is get all the hardware you...

That is why he calls it mapping the system. It is a map nothing more or less. Understanding function is a differant step.

I can tell you from personal experience it works very well.....In LE we...

Finally got it downloaded, let me read it before I respond.

Yes, there is a dark side mostly you can fall into the trap of trying to turn eveything into an IBM machine.....not good.



I read that paper when it came out but I will read it again, very...

I am not making myself clear. Everything in the rings is pysical including people, I am not just talking about ring 3 Infrastructure. Influence a physical leader is affecting a physical system.

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