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This is likely true:This could also be true if the west does not awaken...We have a brief window and we'd better take advantage of it...

and take my thumb off before I can cock my SAA, I ain't messin' with. Not to mention I don't run, dodge and jump so well nowadays. :D

Or that with my luck, I'd be the second Neanderthal in line...

And, yeah, it sure looks hybrid...:rolleyes:
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Quoth Slap:Practically and semantically, I agree and think most would do so. In the politico-military context though, the issue become who decides the "how." Many moons ago, Lincoln gave Grant the...

I agree that Bob's World continually sallies into the political realm (the SO community does that quite often, I think it's it's probably genetic -- and one reason I left that commune... ;) ) and...

9/11 point. What does one have to do with the other?

Also, I see you posted his 3d conclusion -- what is wrong with it?

Agree. I don't see the Paper as anything other than a balanced view and a cautionary to folks not to get air power or land power centric...

The Marines and US Army Light Infantry units adapted and adjusted and did it fairly well as did the Air Force. Only the dominant Heavy Division guys in the Army didn't adapt -- not because they...

This brought to mind the fact that everyone doesn't say that; some, for example say "Treat 'em rough." and there are a host of other mandatory unit greetings, each as valid as the other. I have said...

however, my cynicism is based on more years watching the circus than I probably had a right to -- certainly more than I ever expected. ;)

He's just playing the game and being smart about while...

Thus the spate of SOCOM articles touting the troops. :cool:

That article's long on attaboys and short on specifics. Shaping, Shaping the battlefield..

Wilf said:He's charitable. It's pretty pathetic IMO overall, there is an occasional bright spot in the journals but they're rare. Most articles tend to be too scholarly for practical use. Footnote...

My take also...1. I think that US tactical and operational thinking has been so severely constrained by our fetish with 'metrics' and providing 'systems' thinking that we see anything out of OUR now...

Hybrid warfare? Those pesky Steppe dwellers and the Egyptians invented Composite Bows. Then there was the thought "Let's distribute blankets from smallpox victims" ...

survive, doing things right tactically and operationally are pretty important -- one error can mean disaster.

Which does not at all mean the Israelis did not profit strategically from the...

Cav Guy. Read his book a long time ago; agreed with parts and not with others. I do strongly agree with this statement of his you quote:Anyone who agrees with me is bound to be thinking...

True -- and regrettable, it's not that hard IMO. But that always seems to be the case; that they're behind the power curve. In my view that derives from trying to make too many disparate groups...

gets it. Fads don't matter. As he points out, WW II was absolutely full of 'hybrid' war. So were some segments in Korea and many segments in Viet Nam -- most, even.

The only thing Hezbollah...

Folks are always changing the rules and in discussions, there are always "well, if..." things thrown in. None of those things you posit happened to get to this point: This did happen:With the last...

you've got it pegged...

So do the players.

Unfortunately, we don't get to choose what type(s) of war we'll be involved in and any attempt to concentrate on one spectrum or another would be quite foolish. The "only big...

Mike Innes said:That coincides with my thoughts. There are good ideas in both papers but IMO, neither really surfaces anything new (unless I missed something, always possible :o), they've just...

As we all know. Therefor, it seems to me that it is incumbent on everyone who engages in warfare at any level, from the politician who sends units forth to the last Snuffy (yes, even him...) to read...