Right, but doesn't Wardens desire to "start with strategy" imply that the military strategist should get to be the one to "picture the desired endstate"?2-Yes, you should start with the desired end state, the political objective but that is usually something that is given to the military not something which they get to create.
Aren't we doing what Warden cautions against in presupposing that our means will be to strike something? Or are you using "strike" in a generic sense of "to affect"?1-No, as you point out Libya is NOT the system you want to attack but you need to make a systems map of the country in order to see what you should avoid attacking. From there you need to map the Qudaffi Mafia(using table1 as an example) and all it's elements and then decide what to Strike.
SO lets say our strategic objective is to remove "the Qudaffi Mafia" from power along with their ability to adversely impact the oppsition regime's assumption of power.
Where do we get the information we need to understand how deeply the Qudaffi Mafia is insuinuated throughout the country? If all the COGs live in Ring 2 of systems essentials where do we get the "map" of these things? What happens if the map is a really complicated thing like the one Cliff linked to regarding Af/Pak?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/wo...oint.html?_r=1
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