President Barack Obama makes Thanksgiving Day phone calls to U.S. troops from the Oval Office, Nov. 24, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
The Decade Of War To Come -- Nick Turse, Al Jazeera
War, in the form of proxies, drones and special ops, has accelerated around the globe under the Obama administration.
New York, NY - "In operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, a failure to recognise, acknowledge and accurately define the operational environment led to a mismatch between forces, capabilities, missions and goals," reads a new draft report by the Pentagon's Joint Staff.
In Decade of War: Enduring Lessons from the Past Decade of Operations, the authors admit to failures in Iraq and Afghanistan and lay out a series of lessons for the future, including more effective efforts aimed at winning hearts and minds, integrating regular troops and special operations forces, coordination with other government agencies, coalition operations, partnering with the forces of host-nations and paying greater attention to the use of proxy forces.
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My Comment: Could not have said it any better .... and what is remarkable about this war/military trend is that there has been no debate or discussion in Congress, the media, academia, and/or anyone else in the defense establishment on where is all of this going.
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