Thursday, June 26, 2008
War on Terror - and the "Art" of War
I think Tim Wilson has this right.
Unfortunately, I can't imagine any groundswell of support until something really bad happens to awaken us again...
Unfortunately, I can't imagine any groundswell of support until something really bad happens to awaken us again...
At FamilySecurityMatter.org, Tim Wilson makes these points and others:
"Any reasonable assessment of the current situation in the WoT shows that the enemy is 'inside' our decision cycle instead of vice versa, setting the agenda and attacking on many fronts: informational, judicial and political as well as physical. This is a highly unusual situation for our military commanders and politicians, and one for which they have no training or preparation since all previous experience has been based on conventional warfare. It will take innovation, determination and decisive action to correct the problem. It is also likely to take a considerable amount of time.
Our leaders should certainly be conducting counter-operations, especially in the informational arena, including explanations to the US public of the problems caused by the methods of the enemy, in order to change the equations of the decision cycle. Perhaps then they could turn the tide of bad publicity which has accompanied much of the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan which is so contrary to the perceptions of our soldiers in the field. If the public understands that much of the 'bad news' from these battlefields is actually enemy propaganda, they, and in turn our politicians, will become much less susceptible to adverse stories. This should not be hard to achieve, after all, the American public are more patriotic than the inhabitants of most other nations, and for good reason as they live in the greatest nation in history."
