Quote Originally Posted by ganulv View Post
So are you saying that JPEL doesn’t actually exist? Or that it needs to be longer and less burdened by restrictions?
We are required by our laws to target militarily appropriate targets. That is fine for 5th column guerrilla warfare, but it isn't how you effectively displace and replace existing governance structures. I'm not arguing we should do this, but we need to be aware of it. As Fall once pointed out, when we did our village assessments in Vietnam we assumed control if we built a school and kids were going to it. He pointed out we were often blind to the fact that the communist shadow gov appointed the teachers. Gov appointed teachers were a critical target for the VC. I see similar parallels in our current fight. We often don't understand it because it is outside of our perceptions model. A JPEL means little if we don't understand the adversary's strategy. We blindly focus on HAM and targeting foot soldiers when the real H VIs are often a different flavor.