"Our art of war has expanded upon the older concepts."
Expanded, I like that, and I'm impressed with how flexible, innovative, and willing to reexamine fundamental traditions and territorial prerogatives the military is recently.
Yes. What we are seeing is the fruition of decades of thinking, planning, testing, equipping, and training coupled with brilliant departure from orthodoxy brought about by eager minds focused on winning a war.
In chaos there is opportunity. And we are living in interesting times ;-)