20 April Inside Defense - The Insider - Effects-Based Controversy.

Inside the Pentagon leads this morning with Elaine Grossman's must-read report on why the debate over "effects based operations" has emerged as a controversial issue among the U.S. military top brass...

A top combatant commander at a key U.S. military headquarters is moving quietly to defuse growing military consternation over a warfighting approach that has become a hallmark of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's leadership. . .

Air Force Gen. Lance Smith, who heads U.S. Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, VA, said in an interview he wants to "disavow the term" for the controversial strategy, "effects-based operations," following complaints from high-ranking Marines and Army generals who regard it as dangerously simplistic.
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