Revising The American Way Of War Pt 1

Global Hawk

From New Wars:

Certainly the old Industrial Warfare, often called “The American Way of War” has reached its limits in this new century. The 3rd Generation Warfare ideas of mass armies, navies, and air forces dominated the tactics of the last century but appears now to have met their match in the face of the Third World Hybrid Warrior, the 4th Generation Revolutionary. Every nation, rebel group, even social movements which has adopted these principles of bluff, propaganda, and fanatical devotion have prospered over more conservative ideas from traditional governments attempting to hold up well established societies born out of the Reformation.

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My Comment: Taking a big topic like describing the American Way of War and putting it into a blog post is a daunting challenge, but New Wars has done a good job on this one. The only thing that I was surprised in his post is that there was no discussion on the evolving development and use of robot platforms and systems in war theaters. UAVs like the Reaper and Predator's get all the fame, but other numerous weapon systems of this type are now being developed and will soon be deployed to combat zones like Afghanistan and elsewhere.

I can only presume that this discussion will be in Part 2.