Posted on 08/21/2014 7:42:08 PM PDT by GonzoII
Yup. He lost me on the first sentence. Skipped to comments.
That would require a non Kenyan-Muslim-Marxist usurper POTUS and his real brain and Iranian minder, Valerie Jarrett. In short, no one on Barry’s team is capable of doing this job.
Expect little in the way of modification when his foreign policy becomes de facto domestic policy....
Uh, general…there is no state to destroy.
(from) The Quranic Concept of War1 JOSEPH C. MYERS
The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the be- lievers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.”— Majid Khadduri
Political and military leaders are notoriously averse to theory, but if there is a the- orist about war who matters, it remains Carl von Clausewitz, whose Vom Kriege (On War) has shaped Western views about war since the middle of the nineteenth century.” Both points are likely true and problematic since we find ourselves engaged in war with people not solely imbued with western ideas and values or followers of western military theorists. The Hoover Institution’s Paul Sperry recently stated, “Four years into the war on terror, US intelligence officials tell me there are no baseline studies of the Muslim prophet Muhammad or his ideological or military doctrine found at either the CIA or Defense Intelligence Agency, or even the war colleges.”
Would this be surprising? When it comes to warfighting military audiences tend to focus on the military and power aspects of warfare; the tangibles of terrain, enemy, weather, leadership, and troops; quantifiables such as the number of tanks and artillery tubes—the correlation of forces. Analysts steer toward the familiar rather than the unfamiliar; people tend to think in their comfort zones. The study of ideology or philosophy is often brushed aside, it’s not the “stuff of muddy boots;” it is more cerebral than physical and not action oriented. Planners do not assess the “correlation of ideas.” The practitioners are too busy.
Dr. Antulio Echevarria recently argued the US military does not have a doctrine for war as much as it has a doctrine for operations and battles. The military has a deficit of strategic, and, one could add, philosophic thinking.
http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/06winter/win-ess.pdf
The problem can’t begin to be solved as long as the US fights wars for Saudia Arabia and Qatar. This goes all the way back to George 1 in Kuwait.
Agreed. Doesn’t KSA have its own military or something? Can’t they defend themselves or do they just spend money funding terrorists & spreading Islam across the world?
Wow - between Chicago and now Gen. Allen, Big Brother is really ratcheting up the sabre rattling propaganda fast now.
I’m impressed. NOT.
And all those American terrorists with guns...well the government is coming for you too! If you have a gun and a Bible you’re probably a budding ISIS terrorist too!
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