Posted on 05/31/2013 1:01:31 PM PDT by RightSideNews
President Barack Obama is abysmally ignorant of what every first year ROTC student knows, that is, war only ends when the enemy no longer has the motivation and/or capability to continue the war. The president’s ignorance was embarrassingly on display in his May 23rd National Defense University counterterrorism policy speech. This speech was untrue, incoherent, foolish, and dangerous. With appropriate deference for this concept to the master warfare theoretician, Carl von Clausewitz and his seminal work, On War, war reduced to the most fundamental equation is: MOTIVATION(S) + CAPABILITY = WAR. Various historical war motivations or causes have been religious, political, geo-strategic, economic, and revanchist. Capability, on the other hand, is composed of manpower and firepower, as well as replacing manpower losses while re-supplying the firepower through logistics. Remove one or both of these motivation-capability factors from war, and the war stops, at least temporarily. But it is only stops permanently if and when the enemy loses faith in his motivating cause and/or is just physically incapable of continuing kinetic action. Therefore, effective warfare is not just random killing or physical destruction, rather effective warfare strategically targets motivation and/or capability. It must be noted, however, that destruction of capability may just yield a temporary cessation of hostilities until combat manpower and firepower capability can be regenerated.
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It's as bad as the way Clinton used to bang on and say NOTHING!
It makes your head spin. Who do these clowns think they are kidding?
If ever a foreign country were to attack the United States, now is the time to do it. We have the weakest, most clueless President in the history of mankind. And he won’t lift a finger to save Americans in distress either.
Obama’s Speeches are Untrue, Incoherent, Foolish, and Dangerous
BUT Billy the bomber Ayers has been successful in dumbing down the sheeple to the point that they cannot discern the lies and love the tyranny.
that moron is going to git us all killed
Who cares what His Arrogance thinks. What is important is what Valarie Jarrett thinks and does as defacto president.
It is very nice to read sane words. Somebody willing to stand up with facts and truth, I really appreciate this.
The terrorists have surrendered to Obama in a closed meeting where no one was allowed to talk about what was said. Rumor has it the terrorists said they would only be practicing Islamic acts of violence in onecees, twoceesm and maybe a threecees now and then. They all got little Obama dolls before leaving the White House, and they also received free passes to Obama’s favorite bathhouse. Bush’s war is over.
A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
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