Please vote "delusional"
The number of votes for "brilliant, useful" suggests that America is doomed. I recommend that we all get dual citizenship with some refuge nation, perhaps an isolated communist State up in the hills. Like Albania, or Berkeley.
Perhaps more evidence will help....
Kilcullen then gives 28 steps to victory. Let's start at the top.
At this point a savvy Captain might toss this in the trash.1. Know your turf.
Know the people, the topography, economy, history, religion and culture. Know every village, road, field, population group, tribal leader and ancient grievance. Your task is to become the world expert on your district.
This advice is either banal (“know your turf”) or impossible.
The world expert on “your” district already lives there. What Kilcullen describes is called the home court advantage – and they have it, not us. US company commanders on a six to twelve month rotations cannot develop anything remotely like this knowledge about so foreign a place.
It might not be possible for then to do so in Watts or Harlem.
This does however, show the power of Kilcullen's work.
First, Kilcullen has written a useful field manual. Unfortunately, it works only for insurgents -- not us. See #1 above.
Second, he (unknowingly) shows why overseas expeditions do not work in a 4GW world. The "home court advantage" has the advantage when (like now) defensive strategies are dominant.
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