The Wrong Debate: Reflections on Counterinsurgency
08.08.2013 at 06:01pm
The Wrong Debate: Reflections on Counterinsurgency by Crispin Burke, War on the Rocks.
… FM 3-24 is a far different book than its critics make it out to be. Paradoxes are a poor addition to the book, not because they are inaccurate, but because they tend to be comically over-simplified, and are replete with qualifiers and exceptions. Nevertheless, FM 3-24 does clarify its assertion that “tactical success guarantees nothing” by noting that tactical actions are “important…in achieving security,” though not in and of themselves the only means of success…
