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 | MILITARY METRICS : HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN WE ARE WINNING (OR LOSING) A WAR?
How do governments know whether they.re winning or losing a military campaign? That question is devilish enough in the context of conventional wars with pitched battles, as conflicts often take surprising twists and turns en route to their endgame. It was more than sheer bravado that led Charles De Gaulle, who knew a thing or two about military operations, to declare in June 1940, France has lost the battle, but France has not lost the ...Read more > | 6 Pages 590.53 KB |
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 | WAR IS ABOUT KILLING AND DESTRUCTION, IT IS NOT ARMED SOCIAL SCIENCE
I feel sorry for the British Army for they seem to have been taken in by the American Armys consumption with Counterinsurgency and its theoretical premise that military force can change entire societies for the better. Of course this quote is attributed to one of Americas leading Counterinsurgency experts retired Army Lieutenant Colonel John ...Read more > | 3 Pages 275.27 KB |
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 | BEHAVIOURAL CONFLICT
This paper represents nearly two years of work and active consideration both in the academic domain and in the field of conflict of the problems confronting the British military in contemporary and future ...Read more > | 40 Pages 522.48 KB |
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 | ART OF WAR PAPERS
Disrupting an insurgent’s access to sanctuary and safe-haven is a critical aspect of operational planning for counterinsurgent forces. By denying an insurgent’s access to safe-havens early in the conflict, the counterinsurgent will gain a marked advantage over the initially weaker force. Only through a deep understanding of how the insurgent is using international, tribal, or cultural borders to evade the counterinsurgent force can the counterinsurgent disrupt the insurgent ...Read more > | 134 Pages 1.71 MB |
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 | THEORY OF WAR AND STRATEGY- VOL-I
The U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Issues is the latest edition of the U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy, which the college has published sporadically under different titles since 2001. As begun with the last publication, this edition of the Guide is in two volumes that correspond roughly to the two core courses that the Department of National Security and Strategy teaches: “Theory of War and Strategy” and “National Security Policy and ...Read more > | 385 Pages 3.38 MB |
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 | WRATH OF ACHILLES : ESSAYS ON COMMAND IN BATTLE
Sing Goddess, of the wrath of Achilles, Peleus son. So begins the Iliad, the greatest war epic in western culture. Since the dawn of recorded history, the history of man has been nearly synonymous with the history of war, a history that begins with Homer and continues today. Then as now, war remains the ultimate arbiter of human affairs, an awful and ever-present reminder of humanitys failure to escape its wrathful roots. Seemingly inescapable, war is supremely important because it is the great ...Read more > | 229 Pages 2.82 MB |
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 | GLOBALIZATION AND THE NATURE OF WAR
If the war on terrorism is any guide, globalization is changing the nature of war in several ways. First, it is
strengthening the role that politics will play in war by
affording it the capability to exert greater real time control
over military operations. Of course, this control will vary
depending on the personalities involved as well as a
combatants ability to interdict its opponents communications.
Second, globalization is increasing the criticality of
the element of hostility. ...Read more > | 39 Pages 774.56 KB |
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 | CAPSTONE CONCEPT FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS
The United States and its allies will remain at war for the foreseeable future. We will continue to battle a networked, technologically
modern adversary that utilizes non-conventional methods of warfare as
its primary means of operation. Traditional concepts of military response will no longer succeed in defeating the current enemy or removing the underlying conditions that give rise to similar future adversaries. In
order for the U.S. to defeat these enemies, the U.S. Special Operations ...Read more > | 28 Pages 1.35 MB |
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