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06-09-2009, 02:35 PM
zuludelta
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I don't think we'll ever win the "war on terror" because our military just doesn't think and act like theirs does.
Sometimes I think we just need to let the CIA and Delta loose and let 'em do their thing.
Well, I woudn't go that far. The thing about "fighting fire with fire" is that you risk burning everything down. I grew up during the height of the communist insurgency in the northern Philippines, and let me tell you, a government employing the same moral and ethical standards as the insurgents they're fighting against only results in more dead civilians.
My point was more towards the adoption of organizational flexibility.
"The Silent War"
is an excellent book written by Victor N. Corpus, a Philippine Army officer who joined the communist New People's Army in the 1970s to fight the right-wing Marcos dictatorship, outlines and explains in great detail, using real-world examples, how a small and under-equipped but operationally versatile decentralized force can take down traditionally regimented units armed with superior numbers and firepower (Corpus himself was not a Marxist-Leninist, but joining the NPA was the only way he felt he could contribute to the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos... the whole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" deal).
After the non-violent overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Corpus was reinstated by the new government as a lieutenant colonel and returned to the national military as a hero (he'd spent the past 10 years as a politicial prisoner after surrendering to Marcos in 1976, after becoming disillusioned with the communist cause) and tried to apply the same special operations principles he developed for the NPA to now counteract the rising communist and Islamist insurgency in the country. He now spends his time as an international lecturer on special operations counter-insurgency tactics and strategy (he's taught lectures at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as an expert on economics, technology, and international security).
Anyways, I digress, but "Silent War" is a great book if you can find it (I first read it when I was 12... my dad -- who was a Corpus admirer for a time -- actually lent it to me. I used to get in a lot of trouble with older relatives and my teachers for carrying that book around).
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