Revising the American Way of War Pt 1 Certainly the old
Industrial Warfare, often called “The American Way of War” has
reached its limits in this new century. The 3rd Generation
Warfare ideas of mass armies, navies, and air forces dominated
the tactics of the last century but appears now to have met
their match in the face of the Third World Hybrid Warrior, the
4th Generation Revolutionary. Every nation, rebel group, even
social movements which has adopted these principles of bluff,
propaganda, and fanatical devotion have prospered over more
conservative ideas from traditional governments attempting to
hold up well established societies born out of the Reformation.
There are few greater evidences than the ongoing wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, consuming the past several decades and
threatening to extend into another. Costs have been estimated up
to $3 Trillion for the wars, with the budget of the terrorists
who started the conflict being ever so frugal. Despite the
immense burden placed on America’s economy, i