Yes...It opens my mind to differing opinions and I carry them into my projects/tasks.
Yes...It's good to discuss the tough issues we face in Small Wars, and it's opening eyes.
Yes...I'm convinced that policy-makers take time to pause and consider what eminates from here.
Yes and no...I learn a lot, but our audience is limited to ourselves.
No...There is too much inertia and parochialism that keeps folks' minds closed.
More kudos for the wagon!
I recommend the forum to our cadets (with mixed success) and to fellow students (again...not sure of success there), and will continue to do so. Having an open forum where many educated viewpoints (both book educated and experience educated) can come together can only result in more good work being done. Kudos yet again to Dave and Bill for providing this great thing for us!
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
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