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2010-06-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-06-26 05:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 There were only two instances in the last 10 years where Western forces fought to victory.

Sort of misses Columbia's success in the analysis.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-26 10:52|| 2010-06-26 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 ..or Sri Lanka.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-26 10:53|| 2010-06-26 10:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Western forces fought to victory.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-06-26 11:11|| 2010-06-26 11:11|| Front Page Top

#4 "The Western way of war" is the title. In both cases, forces in the western model and methodologies were the foundation of success.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-26 12:04|| 2010-06-26 12:04|| Front Page Top

#5 As Biden has explained it, the alternative would involve deploying special forces units and airpower to target the Taliban as it becomes necessary, and otherwise disengage from the country as quickly as possible.

McChrystal and his allies dismissed Bidens strategy as a recipe for disaster. Without a sufficient number of forces on the ground, the US would lose its ability to gather intelligence and so know what targets to attack.

I guess that's why there are no dronezaps in Pakistan. /endsarc

Biden is right. Troops on the ground are the problem. Without them the war could be waged for decades with minimal opposition. When was the last time anyone protested the Pakland dronezaps and now the Yemen dronezaps.

The Western way of war is now keyboard jockies and data miners in suburbia.

Posted by phil_b 2010-06-26 21:24|| 2010-06-26 21:24|| Front Page Top

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