More technical stuff

IN THE NEWS
Less than a day after I posted this piece on the technical level of strategy, I ran across this case study of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War from Parameters, the journal of the US Army War College. It makes the same basic point: the technical dimension is important, but it's usually vastly overrated.

The Army War College has been home to a lot of good discussions about counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. There are some thoughtful people in uniform doing serious work on the subject. See this article, also from Parameters, for a good example.

Comments

[Alisdair]

Yes excellent articles. I've only recently discovered parameters via the publicity on the 'Towards An American Way Of War' article.

The article on Vietnam is particularly interesting. While the British are profitably referencing Ulster and even Malaya in the way they conduct the war the Americans don't seem able to make use of the lessons of Vietnam.

That the war was a defeat has lead it to be ignored. Indeed cries for the replication of La Hama seemed to be based on the misconception that Vietnam would have been won if only massive force had been used.

[Kingdaddy]

It's especially weird, given that the Vietnam War wasn't one undifferentiated failure. Strategies like the Marine's Combined Action Platoons, the CORDS program, and others did gain ground in the counterinsurgency war. You can say that the United States withdrew for different reasons than how well we were doing against the NLF, which should remove the emotional barrier about discussing Vietnam.

As I said, there are a lot of military personnel who take the subject very seriously, but the rewards system just isn't there yet. Nor is the cross-service focus, except to the extent that things like the joint special operations command contribute. (However, special ops are not counterinsurgency, and vice-versa.) There's still a lot of animus towards the "snakeaters" in the special ops community, which certainly doesn't help.

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