Why does the US field the best soldiers but lose so often?
As we begin another cycle of wars, we owe it to ourselves & our soldiers to ask the big question:Â why do we keep losing? Here is an answer.
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How to win the Long War
Summary: Yesterday’s post explained why our Long War has produced so few gains at such a high cost in money and blood. It did not explain why our military — led by the best-educated officers in history — repeats the tactics that have failed in so many similar wars? This leads to a second question: after that problem is …
Let’s try a defensive strategy in America’s wars, and win.
Summary: So many posts here describe how we are losing. Since we’ve forgotten, I’m reposting explanations of why and how we are losing — and how we can win in the age when 4th generation warfare (4GW) is the dominant mode of war. Step one: adopt a rational grand strategy. The original version was posted in …
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We can defeat the jihadists, just as we did the anarchist terrorists
Summary: Today’s violence from Islamic extremists has many similarities to the anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using standard police and intelligence methods, Western governments defeated the anarchists — without massive restrictions on civil liberties, without military operations. We can defeat today’s Islamic extremists using similar methods — reversing the results from 16 years of …
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A powerful new article shows why we lose so many wars: FAILure to learn
Summary:Â Slowly America begins to come to grips with its defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, as experts provide simple easy explanations. Here we look at the 3rd such major article, a demonstration that the main lesson of our defeats is that we refuse to learn from them. Eyes tightly closed we stumble onto a rough …
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