From “The Quranic Concept of War”
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 “cor- relation of ideas.” The practitioners are too busy.
Dr. Antulio Echevarria recently argued the US military does not have a doc- trine 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
Thanks for the post, pieceofthepuzzle. War we are at. “Knife at our throats”? No leathernecks allowed. CONgre$$ can ban sharp blades. /sarc
Who will protect us from our protectors (RIP Mark Scott)?
As a former practitioner of military intelligence, humint oriented and counter-terror directed, I can assure you that there are many neo-leftists in the business, who think they are uniquely astute, more nuanced, more responsible and intelligent than the the old-school knuckledraggers they saw when they looked at me and my fellow realists.
Well, I have been right 100% and the elitist faculty loungers have been wrong 100%.
They have been driven and whiplashed into conformity by liberal indoctrination, political and cultural deconstruction, a need to celebrate anything diverse as opposed to anything American. They participate in every liberal cause and celebrate the derangement of the so-called LGBTQ agenda.
They just cannot help themselves. They are thoroughly debased and brainwashed, psychologically and morally neutered, pack dogs that lick spittle from their master’s boots.
Gee that was harsh. Meant every damn word of it.