I discuss the thumbnail sketches of US military failure since the end of WWI and try to elucidate some of the reasons for the failure and the existential threat this cavalcade of calamities is to 21st century America if the ship of state doesn’t reverse course.
This a a dangerous time for America to continue its bad habits of wars of choice and allowing its intelligence organizations and their cutout mischief-makers to poke the bear and create black swan events out of whole cloth.
America boasts a magnificent 20th century war machine not fit for purpose for 21st century peer warfare.
The crossroads is chock-full of landmines.
References:
Christian Brose The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America
Martin van Creveld
The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz
Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945
Colin Gray
Strategy and History: Essays on Theory and Practice
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
William Lind Maneuver Warfare Handbook
John Boyd Patterns of Conflict
Michael Weiner Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA
John Prado The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of DarknessSun Tzu The Art of War
Carl von Clausewitz On War
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
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