Friday, June 16, 2006

Why we can't win

Jeff Huber and the latest installment of the Next World Order series:

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Let's set one thing straight about counterinsurgency operations. There are better and worse ways to conduct them, but there is no good way to conduct them. And you can't design a military that specializes in counterinsurgency because then it wouldn't be good at doing what it's supposed to do, which is fight and defeat other military forces.

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