Asymmetric Warfare Quotes
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym.
Ever since the end of WWII, no major war has been fought where there has been a classic victory where one nation is conquered by another and there is a surrender. Many of the wars have been fought against non-state actors or our war aim is a regime change or the establishment of a more friendly government. We have no desire to occupy the countries generally, and there is often no one “in charge” of the enemy who can even surrender. Bruce was referring to the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War. In each case, despite the lack of a surrender document, it can be said that America won both of these wars initially and then had great trouble with the occupation, the nation building, and keeping the peace. In Iraq and Afghanistan we suffered almost no casualties in the initial invasions. The occupation and “peace” is where we suffered almost all of our casualties.
of the German tactics of Blitzkrieg Goering, Hitler and the other leading Nazis were quite open about their military aggression. Terrorism was admittedly used to persuade the next nation Germany would attack to capitulate rapidly.
The Muslims had internal wars but they had—and still have--two sets of morality as to the laws of war. This illustrates the classic Islamic discrimination against non-believers to which the minority of Muslim terrorists still adhere,
The Seals who conducted the raid captured all the computers and documents that there were in bin Laden’s compound.
Bush was a poor orator with a very limited command of the English language although he was quite bright and well educated. This is another of his classic gaffs.
