It Only Took 9 Years
It took 9 years to figure this out? Really? Sometimes I have to wonder about the think-tankers out there.
Army requires different leaders to fight irregular wars, general says
The Army will require a different type of leader in the fight against terrorism and other kinds of irregular warfare, the Army’s top troop trainer said here today.
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With the advent of terrorism and other types of irregular warfare, he said, the U.S. military now “must develop leaders who are effective in the context of ill-defined problems against an enemy likely to migrate among operational themes.”
So after 9 years of lengthy combat against insurgent/terrorist forces, they finally decided that barreling over them in tanks is not such a good idea. Oh, and then there was a little conflict that taught us these lessons about, oh, 35 years ago. They called it Vietnam, but I guess we kinda forgot about those lessons. I have gotten a bit jaded I guess.
