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Forgive me for replying to the above post with a recycled variant of something I posted at the kings of war website but I thought the comments appropriate;

I have to say that making ‘world...

Thanks for that, although I have an inkling (no more perhaps) that the onus of responsibility for ignorance lies entirely with me:o. I think, in a nutshell, the distinction I was tryingto make was...

To say that something is far from reality is really only making a statement about one’s position relative to the reality being observed/perceived. I am sure we could both refer to “un-named...

I’m just going to do a stream of consciousness thing and see where it leads us (although I thought my original post was too all intents and purposes, for a blog at least, self-explanatory).
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What I’m saying in a nutshell is that insurgency isn’t just being fought over there but over here too. The home front is as much a battleground as the foreign AO.

Also I should mention that what is happen at home (in the UK) at least qualifies as much as an insurgency as what is going on in Afghanistan (ndeed, they are interlinked). And that this is what, I...

In the thread “ Is Irregular Warfare Really "Irregular" Anymore?” William F Owen made the comment that “The important thing is the political objective of the operations, and how to achieve them....

Duly noted. You're right, of course, ad hominem attacks aren't very sportsman like. I think it was a case of transfering my antipathy towards one individual in particular and superimposing it upon...

In conclusion although William Lind seems to revel in the fact that earlier copies of his article may have been read by Al-Qaeda, reportedly found in the caves of Tora Bora, we may rejoice at the...

Upon independence these states achieved legal sovereignty even though they lacked formal or de facto sovereignty based on institutional coherence and capacity and are thus ‘quasi-states’. State...

Secessionist insurgencies revolve around ethnic and economic issues concerning Nigerian oil resources which are located in small ethnic territories. The Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic...

The Third Generation of manoeuvre, what Lind and Hammes erroneously label Blitzkrieg, can actually be located farther back in history with the Assyrians (c. 900 B.C.) who combined horses with...

Contrary to Lind and Hammes the First Generation Napoleonic era is understood by historians to be a ‘paradigm of manoeuvre warfare’. Harnessing the levee en masse of the Revolutionary period...

Comrades,

I have only been a member of the forum for a short while and yet have found my decision to be most rewarding; viz, the general disdain/contempt felt for William Lind and Thommas Hammes....