Conventional War against a conventional nation state is vastly and totally different then Counter Insurgents against a terrorist movement. It utterly absurd to argue that we need to adopt the tactics of the first in order to fight that latter.
If we had fought World War II the way we are fighting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan today, our official language would be German. Instead of the kid-glove restrictions imposed on how we treat the Islamo-fascists
Conventional War against a conventional nation state is vastly and totally different then Counter Insurgents against a terrorist movement. It utterly absurd to argue that we need to adopt the tactics of the first in order to fight that latter.
You miss the BIG Picture. The tatics of the first (WW2) was to WIN period.. The tatics nowadays is, what can we do that will not offend someone or cost a vote.......