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 »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
When struggling for hearts and minds, military solutions are problems.