Quote Originally Posted by Courtney Massengale View Post
I do think we need some new terminology to help define how warfare has evolved over the past 25 years. To my reckoning, the last real academic application that went into defining conflict that was separating “total war” from “limited war” after the Korean Armistice (of course, this wasn’t anything new – just a reinvigoration to describe the times). Most of the other terms spun out there that William Owen is talking about are derivatives of that transition.
Why don't we just say "Irregular" - that dates from about 1770 or before, or we could say "Guerilla," and that dates from about 1809.

We do NOT need new words. All the "new" words are the problem, and no help in resolving the problem. Warfare has always evolved. War has not.