Quote Originally Posted by Umar Al-Mokhtār View Post
Wilf that's even better than "pop-centric COIN"! I can even picture a few of them sitting at a cafe wearing jaunty berets, sipping Absinthe and Pernod, and drawing on their delicately held Gauloises.

Where did they go? Well, having stepped off into the limelight to now revel in their new pop stardome they seem to have left we of the pragmatic and weathered hoi-polloi to continue to march on.
I'm not sure they ever existed or went anywhere! They might still be here! Some dinosaurs became birds. They mostly come at night... mostly

The men who made the US Army understand that war is not just formation level combat operations, against other formations, deserve praise and credit. They are cool.

The "War is changing" and "Clausewitz doesn't apply any more" are the folks I worry about.