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Well your reasons are a great deal more logical and morally justified. I'm just holding out for some sort of semantic precision.

My objection to "Human Terrain" - beyond the poor use of English -...

Eyh... no problem, but thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify



Duh, but important and insightful none the less. Yes I believe you are correct. The rigid study of Soviet Operations...

Same here and I agree



I disagree with Wilf also, and I never said it, as an activity was meaningless. I said the words "Human Terrain" are meaningless. Commanders need information about the...

Human Terrain is a meaningless phrase, or should be. There is terrain and their is the population. They are very different things. The population has social, political and religious beliefs - call...

Right on the money. Training should and education should focus on widely applicable fundamentals, to lay the bedrock for things that are deployment or mission specific. - and BTW in 1992 the British...

I submit we have not discussed this. THIS IS the problem. We have a significant community who wish to paint a picture of future conflict that fits their desire to innovate and complicate. Central to...

The point is that attempting to predict the nature, location or cause of conflict is mostly pointless.


Few of us who take military thought seriously are focussed on hardware. We discuss how to...

Armies are political instruments. Future conflicts will result from future politics, and nothing else. Resources may be an issue, but there is no evidence that they definitely will be. The same was...

Well that may indeed be true, but please show us some evidence. So far you have just presented a set of opinions, that are by no means clear.

This forum tends to subject ideas to rigour. If you...

Said better than I ever could... or did.



... and the only thing about war that is changing, is Tom and I are agreeing more often! :D

Again, Tom said it better than I did. If someone can't...

...but you cannot predict anything about future conflicts, except that war isn't changing. Future conflicts will be won in exactly the same way the old ones were and you will fight wars for the same...