Regular and Irregular Indigenous Forces for a Long Irregular War
Feb 2007, Vol. 152, No. 1
By Robert Cassidy
Since 2005, American national security officialdom has described the Global War on Terrorism as the Long War. One American national security document describes this Long War as the defining struggle of this generation, one that shifts emphasis from conventional military operations to counterinsurgency operations. The Long War will have no limits of space and time, and in to prosecute it, American security doctrine calls for American forces to train allies to help defeat insurgent enemies in this perennial effort.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Cassidy is a US Army officer and a nonresident Fellow with the Center for Advanced Defense Systems. He is the author of Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War.
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By Robert Cassidy
Since 2005, American national security officialdom has described the Global War on Terrorism as the Long War. One American national security document describes this Long War as the defining struggle of this generation, one that shifts emphasis from conventional military operations to counterinsurgency operations. The Long War will have no limits of space and time, and in to prosecute it, American security doctrine calls for American forces to train allies to help defeat insurgent enemies in this perennial effort.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Cassidy is a US Army officer and a nonresident Fellow with the Center for Advanced Defense Systems. He is the author of Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War.
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