Sean Linnane, who I know from 1st Group, has an excellent piece exploring the new way we fight. Our enemies in this war are global, they hold no capital cities - beyond some worthless real estate in Somalia they hold NO cities and it's debatable whether they hold one even there. Our enemies have no uniform, no flags, no tanks, no artillery, no airplanes, and no fleet of warships. They once had an air force for a very short period of time - the morning of 9/11 - and they kamikazied them all in. If our enemies ever assembled on a single battlefield we could crush them at once - which of course is the point why they operate the way they do. We - the Free World - have achieved such overwhelming military superiority that no enemy on Earth can prevail against us on a conventional battlefield, not even the Chinese; never mind the Iranians and the North Koreans.
Read the complete post at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blackfive/~3/jyaV2PXvDkU/post-modern-war.html
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Sep 23 2011, 12:48 AM
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