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| 2006-11-21 |
| Michael Ledeen As the Baker/Hamilton club considers America's options in the Middle East, its members would do well to browse two currently hot books on counterinsurgency, the better to understand the way our strategists are thinking. The first is Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (1964) by the late David Galula, a French commander who fought in Algeria. It has been reissued with a dandy introduction by an US Army lieutenant-colonel, John Nagl, the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. Both are stimulating, thoughtful and serious. Galula and Nagl agree that insurgencies are revolutionary wars and that the outcome will be determined by control of, and support from the population. This does not mean, however, that counterinsurgents should concentrate on message and propaganda. Galula is in the Lyndon Johnson camp: if you've got them by the balls, the hearts and minds will generally follow. More on this in a minute. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 2006 Elex > was about WHEN "Regime Change" will begin in Radical Iran + Rogue states. WAS NOT A VOTE FOR RETREAT NOR WITHDRAWAL NOR "RE-DEPLOYMENT" NOR AGZ DUBYA'S POLICY OF PRE-EMPTION, ETC. US milfors can keep killing the Spetzies anywhere as long as there is a parallel oper to begin regime change. THE VOTERS WANT TO SEE DESTABILIZATION + REGIME CHANGE ASAP. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-11-21 22:03 |
| #2 2006 Elex > was about WHEN "Regime Change" will begin in Radical Iran + Rogue states. WAS NOT A VOTE FOR RETREAT NOR WITHDRAWAL NOR "RE-DEPLOYMENT" NOR AGZ DUBYA'S POLICY OF PRE-EMPTION, ETC. US milfors can keep killing the Spetzies anywhere as long as there is a parallel oper to begin regime change. THE VOTERS WANT TO SEE DESTABILIZATION + REGIME CHANGE ASAP. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-11-21 22:02 |
| #1 Very good, thanks a5089. Rather than play their game, I prefer to act like a cornered rat. Kill all of the males and convert the females and remove all mosques and korans. We can invent a 'religion' which does all of the slaughtering, then when victory is ours, banish this deadly 'religion' as we had banished Islam. It's a simple matter of using their methods against them, but with our battlefield superiority. Disclaimer, we are so so sorry that all of your men are gone, really really sorry. Please don't bother to call, our complaint lines are busy. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-11-21 13:29 |