Quote Originally Posted by Steve Blair View Post
Perhaps, but clarity in communication is also important. It ensures that your message isn't lost or garbled. It also prevents us from wrapping the same old smelly fish in new newsprint and trying to pass it off as the catch of the day. I think that's what Wilf thinks some of this "newfangled talk" is doing, and in some ways he may be correct.
Said better than I ever could... or did.

Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
Here is a constructive piece of advice:

Simply expressing old ideas in new terms is an old technique that many of us have seen time and time again. Try using plain English versus:
  • Non-kinetic modular elements
  • (semi) (non) permissive environment
  • Military as core buzz word
  • Shape the environment, not destroy it


Those will simply get you tossed from the TOC

And finally try not lecturing the reader...
... and the only thing about war that is changing, is Tom and I are agreeing more often!

Again, Tom said it better than I did. If someone can't describe a military concept or operation, using words and expressions that an officer from 60 years ago would not understand then it should set the BS detector well into the red.

We might all be better served if we stopped using silly words like "human terrain," - do we mean population? Let's say population then. Let's start speaking real English, and stop BS'ing.