While the Americans are beginning to realise that the future of war they
envisioned is every day increasingly resembling the colonial wars of
yesterday, at least in Iraq, theses that take account of cultural
factors are slowly taking over from the purely Clausewitzian theories of
armed conflict and their avatar, the all-mighty ‘technology does it
all’. Network-centric warfare, which was to abolish space and make a
break with massive armies, has failed in Afghanistan and Iraq. If wars
against terrorism have to be supported by networks, they are not exactly
those that the theoreticians of the ‘revolution in military affairs’
had in mind.
Insight Into How Insurgents Fought in Iraq
10 years ago
