Bush's Misguided Offensive Strategies

Initially, the British military in Malaya and the U.S. military in Iraq used aggressive combat techniques to kill as many insurgents as possible. But in both cases, new military commanders — British Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Templer and Petraeus — realized that excessive violence on the part of an occupying power merely drives the occupied country’s population into the hands of the insurgents. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 16, 2008

Eland identifies a critical and chronic strategic error on the part of the commander in chief. Information from Malaysia is brought forward to Iraq, Pakistan, and Somalia. Failure to learn from the past is claimed to be a danger for the next administration.

When struggling for hearts and minds, military solutions are problems.

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