Posted on 01/14/2009 8:22:52 AM PST by PurpleMan
This intellectual and strategic groundwork for the “long war” against Islamic terrorism will never be accomplished as long as our senior service schools and military academies continue to neglect this vital area of strategic study. Regardless of what one might think about the relation between Islamic theology and jihadist justifications for terror, it is a fact that they believe they are operating in accordance with Islamic tradition. Islamic war doctrine ought to be studied on that basis alone.
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bump for read later. Thanks for posting.
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There is only one, inescapable conclusion: America cannot defeat the Islamic enemy because we no longer agree upon who WE are as a nation.
When you have advisers within our own Defense Department taking a sympathetic view of vicious, murdering Islamic nutballs, how can you have hope for our side?
We do not have the political or national will to protect our own sovereignty.
It reminds me of the descriptions of the fall of Rome. There were so many ihabitants of Rome who were NOT Romans... who had no stake in the success of Rome as a national entity, who only and always cared for their personal, immediate and temporary well-being... I seem to recall this distinctly
Some Freepers may recall the scandal of Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, who seemed to be in love with Hesham Islam, a Muslim agent who was working in the Pentagon.
It took months to dig through the evidence and demonstrate that this Muslim had told serial lies about his life. He had a top security clearance, was educating everyone in the military about how NICE Muslims are, and evidently no one ever bothered to check out his life story until FR and various conservative blogs raised a fuss.
Gordon England is still in place, although Hesham Islam was given the boot. England should have been kicked into the gutter for that business.
For instance, see this:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=16101
Leadership needed. Not elected officials.
I think the issue is a nation fighting a religion. It is sort of like fighting the Viet Cong. There is no country to attack, only an ideology.
An ideology with several hundred million people, world wide who at the drop of a hat can cause a global war.
You cannot take it on alone. You need global support and who will support us?
Here is an enemy telling us exactly what they are going to do and why but we choose to not act on the info. Brilliant!
More links to Hesham Islam, Steve Caughlin,
Islamic Law Expert Fired for Being a ‘Christian Zealot’?:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322450,00.html
Who is Hesham Islam?:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1564
Parsing the truth at the Pentagon:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1600
Should government employ terrorist sympathizers?:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney022008.php3
The result has actually been the opposite.
We actively buy from China, a brutal and murderous dictatorship which only serves its tyrants to maintain their boots on the necks of the Chinese people. Wal-Mart is the great facilitator of Chinese tyranny and we American consumers are accomplices.
Right now we see American demand for Chinese goods has fallen dramatically and the Chinese people are more ready to rise against the tyrants who oppress them than they were when Americans were buying everything the Chinese could make for us.
We also buy too much oil from Saudi Arabia, a country which outlaws the practice of Christianity and exports Islamic terrorism.
We should not trade with ANY country that does not respect the rights of its own people or other cultures.
We should be fighting Saudi Arabia and China, NOT FILLING THEIR COFFERS WITH OUR MONEY!
Increased world trade has caused more tyranny and brutality than ever.
I posted this report he’s talking about last week. It was disturbing to me, but no one else seemed to pick up on it.
HAMAS and Israel: Conflicting Strategies of Group-Based Politics
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159410/posts
“There is no country to attack, only ideology.” And terror cell groups.
I have just finished reading a book on Special Ops warfare. An important point made was that the big military is not very comfortable with elite troops, and is structured to marginalize their input and power. Also the CIA does not require the kind of rigorous training and retraining that Special Ops warriors go through regularly. The book gives many good examples of the importance of irregular warfare throughout history, with 100 pages devoted to the period 1945 to 2010, and lessons to be learned and implemented.
“To Dare & To Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda,” (2006) by Derek Leebaert.
The important point is that we need more highly trained irregular warriors to combat hidden terror cells and the like.
Conflict between inferior and superior forces driven by ideology and supported by partisan and/or irregular forces.
The US Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, established in 1995, at Quantico, VA specializes in asymmetric and unconventional warfare. There are no tactical or logistical boundaries at the lab.
One chronic problem with other "war colleges" is the drive and perceived need to assume importance to people who fight, the Hitlers, Stalins, bin Ladens, etc. That makes for very nice "White Papers" that bring the authors attention/promotions/speaking engagements.
The problem is that jihadism organizes around tasks, making authentic study very difficult.
This is the fundamental problem in our "war colleges", the time pressure to produce reports. Many attend for a few short years and think they can google their way to success.
Well, actually, I think a lot of what they tell us, is in hopes that we will choose to act on the info.
The question isn't always how to act, it can sometimes be when to act. And in some cases, the question is whether to act at all.
Lawyer activism in the US is all over the place. It’s a huge loophole for terrorists and communists.
We are supposed to stand in the way of suicide bombing activists, but it seems that it’s not going to be done either.
Oh well, I guess we’ll have to wait to see Congress turn into Saudi Arabia or Kenyan Embassies. We have embraced their policies.
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We should be fighting Saudi Arabia and China, NOT FILLING THEIR COFFERS WITH OUR MONEY!
Increased world trade has caused more tyranny and brutality than ever.
For the last 30 years, I could not believe we were trading with our enemies. I thought the "constructive engagement" model must have been invented by people much smarter than I, because I had never seen wealth turn a despicable person into a good one. In fact, it is usually quite the opposite.
I hate being right.
My son is headed back to Afghanistan later this year. He is also SF and pretty cynical about it all. If you are interested I posted several Vanities based on our email while he was there in 2006. Just check my personal page for the title. He also served during Gulf War I, from Aug. 9, 1990 to April, 1991, with the 82nd Airborne Sheridan tanks.
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