The David Kilcullen Collection (merged thread)

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To my mind, one of the most telling things (as I have said before) is this is "Small Wars" which is very old language. We might try speaking the old language more and gaining more clarity from it.

Hmmm a cognitive COG by doing that one thing alone we could solve a whole bunch of problems. From the SWJ Homwe Page!

Small wars are operations undertaken under executive authority, wherein military force is combined with diplomatic pressure in the internal or external affairs of another state whose government is unstable, inadequate, or unsatisfactory for the preservation of life and of such interests as are determined by the foreign policy of our Nation.

--Small Wars Manual, 1940