Fighting off the net

[unixronin]

In which the US military — or some of it, at least — grasps the concept that the very latest trappings of military technology are no substitute for direct on-the-ground human intelligence and actually making a human connection to the locals.

Why do we have to keep re-learning the simple lesson that you can't defeat an insurgency without the help and support of the locals?

Comments

[radarrider.livejournal.com]

Based on what I've been hearing, we've been applying that lesson in Iraq for some time now.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have been for several years now. But we should have been doing it in Iraq from the start. We shouldn't have had to re-learn it (again) there. It should be part of the standard textbooks and ops manuals.

[7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com]

Because bush and co decreed that we didn't need to, that we would be greeted as liberators, and shut out anyone who said different.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

"None so blind as those who will not see..."