Quote Originally Posted by Bill Moore View Post
Posted by Bob's World



Strongly agree, and it seems we're using it now to almost re-engineer our strategy without changing the ends. That will fail, and it will be blamed on design. Military planning processes work when you have good planners, not when you have poor planners or worse yet poor policies. We always want to blame the process, that is the wrong target.



Not open up another debate on Vietnam at this time, but the domino theory wasn't unfounded. For different reasons Laos and Cambodia fell under communist rule, and Thailand faced a communist insurgency that was defeated. Our design for containing communism was arguably wrong. Additionally, China was the smaller player, the USSR provided the bulk of support to North Vietnam.
@ Bill or others - I've asked this a couple of times before, but when did capacity building show up doctrinally? This is related to the period right after the end of the cold war and related to the UN and its work, isn't it? When did the military first start using the term?