An American View of Twenty-First Century Counter-Insurgency
Aug 2007, Vol. 152, No. 4
By John Nagl
America’s overwhelming conventional military superiority over any conceivable enemy, most recently demonstrated in the enormously successful march to Baghdad in early 2003, has driven her enemies to resist American power with the ancient art of insurgency. This is a subject with which our British allies have some familiarity. However, the counterinsurgency campaigns of the Twenty-first century will differ significantly from those that the British Army conducted with such notable success in the Twentieth. Most importantly, counterinsurgency campaigns conducted in the opening years of the era of globalization will have to be conducted with a renewed appreciation for the importance of information operations as perhaps the decisive line of operations against the enemy.
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By John Nagl
America’s overwhelming conventional military superiority over any conceivable enemy, most recently demonstrated in the enormously successful march to Baghdad in early 2003, has driven her enemies to resist American power with the ancient art of insurgency. This is a subject with which our British allies have some familiarity. However, the counterinsurgency campaigns of the Twenty-first century will differ significantly from those that the British Army conducted with such notable success in the Twentieth. Most importantly, counterinsurgency campaigns conducted in the opening years of the era of globalization will have to be conducted with a renewed appreciation for the importance of information operations as perhaps the decisive line of operations against the enemy.
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