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Originally Posted by Tom Odom
If the problem is as you state it, then state the problem, not a simplistic war is war aphorism as Wilf calls it, tautolgy as he so often uses it.
Wilf,
When you actually go beyond the bumper sticker, you start to make sense as in:
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Well yes, I'm prone to the odd bumper sticker, but so are many. "The population is the terrain" and "You need a network to fight a network."
I guess we are not much different from Politicians.
While I appreciate the positive feedback, I am merely articulating what the last 140 years of irregular warfare has taught us.
While I reject the idea that there are "Principles of War," I do believe that all forms of warfare are predicated on certain enduring fundamentals, without which, a successful out come is nearly always impossible.
Here is an additional
LINK to the speech concerned. May be useful
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- 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
07-12-2009
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