Yemen: Opening A New “Front” In The Long War Nicht Schwerpunkt As A Prescription For Defeat by a 1000 Cuts -- Don VandergriffRecent events like the Fort Hood Massacre and the bungled attempt to fire bomb the airliner bound for Detroit have focused attention on and encouraged our escalating intervention in Yemen, which has been taking place quietly, as if Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan were not enough to keep our strategic planners and stretched out military forces occupied. Our reactions to events in the so-called Long War on Terror suggest an aimless spreading of effort throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. This aimlessness brings to mind a comment General Hermann Balck, a highly decorated German officer in WWII, made to a small group of reformers in the Pentagon in the early 1980s.
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Hat Tip: Fabius Maximus
My Comment: Maximus Fabius is correct .... the above post is what I would also call "top of the line analysis".
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