Example is better than precept.
Originally Posted by RTK
Somewhere, COL Gentile has just found the reason for the success of the "surge" narrative and the "COIN Matrix".
Don't know about this one ....
The two may have crossed paths at one point or the other.I suppose he and General Boykin didn't get along well at all.
Have a friend with whom systematic theology is discussed - I from a Jesuit slant; he from a Watchtower slant. No arguments - we simply witness what we believe. In business-legal matters, our respective religions are checked at the door, but our ethics continue.
I kinda flipped this one off in my post - parts of this are just too funny. But, there is a serious side to what Aquino says in his military articles, which are linked here (since his .pdf's seem not to allow cut and paste, I'll really shorten it):
In that respect, the message is very akin to that of COL Jones (Bob's World).p.3 here
[Speaking of the blowback after Iraq 2003] That is the Achilles heel of MindWar. Invoking as it does the most intense emotions and commitments of its audiences, it must deliver the goods as they are judged by the target audiences. ....
Not everyone is going to buy in to the full package of MindWar. From same page:
Wilf certainly does not; and nothing in my lifetime suggests that is possible (and I believe it is "possible" that the Sun will rise in the West).Everyone is happy, no one gets hurt or killed, and nothing is destroyed.
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RTK and Gavguy - Naw, tinfoil hats are too defensive - L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace !
Seems to me anyone who bought into Mind War as a package at all should be asked to explain themselves in a logical and rational manner.
It seems more of a reason as to why we've struggled in this realm than anything else. Although I suspect it was never an influential paper.
I guess I'm an "old testament" military thinker.
ונתתי מופתים בשמים ובארץ דם ואש ותימרות עשן
That means "I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke." Book of Joel.
Infinity Journal "I don't care if this works in practice. I want to see it work in theory!"
- The job of the British Army out here is to kill or capture Communist Terrorists in Malaya.
- If we can double the ratio of kills per contact, we will soon put an end to the shooting in Malaya.
Sir Gerald Templer, foreword to the "Conduct of Anti-Terrorist Operations in Malaya," 1958 Edition
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