Originally Posted by
Bill Moore
Steve
If strategic compression is only time, then I assume it is the flash to strategic impact time? If it is impossible to fix our IO (another phrase I can't stand, because it means everything), and we're the only ones that are adversely affected by strategic impact, then our center of gravity will rapidly, in comparision to our foe, reach a culminating point.
I think strategic compression is more than time, it is perception, and perception changes over time. Regardless, I still stand by my comments in other threads that we to limit our military ventures to the rapidly achievable based on the reality of strategic compression within a democracy.
Occupations are out of the question. I listened to Secretary Rice on 60 minutes last night and she made some strong arguments based on her childhood experiences why we should push the democracy line of operation in the Middle East, but moral imperatives without means and ways are empty words that send us down endless circular roads where we expend assets and acheive no ends.
Successful small wars strategy requires more than tried and true COIN TTP. If we did everything right at the tactical level, we still wouldn't be victorious without a sound (acheivable) umbrella strategy.
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