Having Greater Power means also having Greater Responsibility.
Or, to put it like this: The Foreign Policy of the US is somewhat more important than that of Madagaskar and will be therefore looked...
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Having Greater Power means also having Greater Responsibility.
Or, to put it like this: The Foreign Policy of the US is somewhat more important than that of Madagaskar and will be therefore looked...
Who would like to see that happen ? - At least nobody in Central Europe!
Concerning the failure in South Vietnam it is quite fruitless IMO to discuss the value of "Search & Destroy" missions or...
Steve Blair said:
"Which is also colored by the 'typical' German view of America which was formed ... in the early 1980s almost entirely by "Dallas," "Dynasty," and "Rambo." I suspect these days...
Maybe there is something for you here...
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BRUZ
War in our days is more and more no longer a true fight but a mere extermination by technical means.
Carl Jaspers.
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
NATO will definitely not be a self-financing Foreign Legion for the US Government....
Talking about Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan I see the fundamental problem in the lack of an overall,...
I still see a clear difference (as posted above): a guerrilla is always a fighter while an insurgent is a more overall term which can be a fighter or not (he may be a pure politician, a bomb-maker, a...
Obviously anybody who doesn't follow this forum's Group-Think opinions fails miserably...
Taken from: "Heads We Win. The Cognitive Side of Counterinsurgency (COIN)" by David C. Gompert. RAND COIN...
I just came across this to stress my point:
It's taken from the narrative by Shelby Foote on the US Civil War (Volume I, Page 65):
When a poor Virginian Private was taken prisoner by some...
Why are there so many people fighting against the US?
Obviously they feel somehow threatened?!
Feel free to call my parallels useless without further statements, but don't be surprised if I don't find that very convincing.
BRUZ
I am just asking for the legitimacy of it, because somebody answered me that a "coup" instead would have been illegal.
So far nobody showed up with a convincing answer to my question other than the...
Because the (huge) US military presence in the Middle East is a power hub for the recruitment of new jihadists.
bruz
So please can YOU provide me with the legitimate basis for the OIF campaign then?
Remember: German Officers were hanged after WWII because of conducting an AGGRESSIVE ATTACKING WAR against the...
Yes, I have.
Many here on this forum (especially those who worship Mr Kilcullen) try to bend classical Insurgency/Counterinsurgency doctrine into something that fits exactly into the present IRAQI...
Can you please give me the reference for the legitimacy of the OIF campaign?
Maybe: US self defense against the oh so many IRAQI WMDs we found down there?
Best wishes,
BRUZ
It is dead wrong to show up with these type of military protectorats (IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN) in the first place, no matter what the quality of the generals...
If you don't have a recognized gvnmt in...
O.K. In just one sentence it is not possible to grasp everything. If somebody just wants to get control of a single province of a country, and not the whole country, than we have the "toppling of the...
In my opinion the difference between GUERRILLA and INSURGENCY is very easy, when you just look at the words and their meaning:
GUERRILLA (in Spanish) means literally SMALL WAR, so it is purely...
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.(Sun Tsu)
There is no instance of a country having benefited
from prolonged warfare.(Sun Tsu)
Now, when your weapons are...
That's of course true.
All these COIN gods were acting at the OPERATIONAL level of war. But a STRATEGICALLY hopeless situation can't be solved by operational art or good tactics.
BRUZ
There is just ONE man ("you know who") responsible for the IRAQ adventure. It is very cheap to try to blame sb else now for the -most probably bad- outcome of it, especially sb who was not envolved...
Thanks for the quotes. They are really spot-on.
BRUZ
That's exactly why it was this BIG strategic blunder to topple Saddam (who was "in full control" of Iraq) without being able to provide a proper replacement for him (democracy or not).
Wasn't that...
THE CHINESE DRAGON LAUGHS
Grand Strategy matters. The Chinese develop their economic power (just buy something here in CONUS and read where it was made...) and refrain from these types of military...