That’s what they used to say about World War I: you had armies of lions led by donkies. In Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s clear that the grand strategy–democratic nation-building in the Muslim world–will do little to make us safer from terrorism and requires an impossible tutelage of proud, xenophobic Muslims by secularized America and its [...]
Posts Tagged ‘tactics’
Lions Led by Donkeys
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged afghanistan, Bush, counterinsurgency, Military, Nation Building, obama, strategy, tactics on 1 Oct 2010 | 4 Comments »
General Sanchez, Loser
Posted in iraq war, Ricardo Sanchez, tagged , Bush, counterinsurgency, Generals, Insurgency, Iraq, rumsfeld, Sanchez, tactics on 15 Oct 2007 | 3 Comments »
I think it’s remarakable that General Ricardo Sanchez, former Corps Commander of all coalition assets in Iraq, is now pointing the finger at everyone–including Rumsfeld, Bremer, Casey, Bush, etc.–when he was so singularly incapable of getting the mission accomplished in Iraq. He failed to keep control when the daily numbers of IED and other attacks [...]
IED Report
Posted in Iraq, Military, tagged , Bombs, Car Bombs, counterinsurgency, Fiasco, IED, Iraq, Military, Ricks, tactics, VBIED, War on 2 Oct 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Ricks, author of Fiasco, has an excellent series of reports on IEDs in Iraq in the Washington Post. One of the most notable trends is a chart showing the number of IED events since 2003. The number is five or six times higher in 2006 and 2007 than it was in the first six [...]
The Price of Process
Posted in Constitution, Liberty, Military, tagged 9/11, ace, al qaeda, atta, cellular, cia, civil liberties, communications, fbi, fisa, geoffrey stone, hillary, iraq war, islam, islamic, jihad, kidnaped soldiers, law, Liberals, obama, phone calls, phones, plots, ron paul, signals, signals intelligence, surveillance, tactics, Terrorism, wireless on 29 Sep 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ace reports an extraordinary story that I’d like to hear the disciples of judicial process and civil liberties for terrorists in the Democratic Party respond to: Last May, Iraqi terrorists kidnapped three American soldiers. American intelligence officials searched for cyber-signals about the kidnapping… and actually found them. They found the kidnappers talking to each other [...]
Rusmfeld: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Posted in counterinsurgency, Iraq, Military, rumsfeld, tagged Abrams, afghanistan, air force, algeria, army, CAP Platoon, cold war, counterinsurgency, democracy, elections, Iraq, manpower, marines, Military, navy, Petraeus, recruitment, retention, rumsfeld, Sanchez, soviet union, strategy, surge, tactics, transformation, Vietnam, Westmoreland on 28 Sep 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the wake of the Cold War, the US military was cut dramatically. We went from a 750,000 man Army to one of about 475,000 today. The Navy and Air Force undertook similar cuts. We went from spending about 5.5% of GDP on the military to 3%. One consequence has been that the “all volunteer [...]
Al Qaeda, Anbar, and Fourth Generation Warfare
Posted in 4GW War, Iraq, Strategy and Tactics, tagged al qaeda, army, d-n-i, dni, fourth generation, Iraq, marines, ramadi, strategy, tactics, Terrorism, warfare, william lind on 26 Sep 2007 | 1 Comment »
William Lind argues that al Qaeda’s previous strengths–its fanaticism and decentralization–may prove its undoing in Iraq: It is reasonably clear that, contrary to the White House’s claims, the “surge” had little or nothing to do with the improved situation in Anbar province in Iraq. That security there has improved is a fact; a Marine friend [...]
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