Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Colin Powell’

No-kill weapons encourage the enemy to leave the battlefield

It’s absolutely clear that the Arab League has a large variety of no-kill weapons. These are munitions that destroy military objects without taking human life. Not killing the average fighter—as well as not killing civilians—shows us the Arab League’s goal for the region. Not only did the Arab League invent a new form of warfare,…

 

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Transparency is a vainglorious notion that loses wars

Last night I realized that the Arab League war-fighting doctrine is “counterinsurgent insurgency” (COIN-IN). In order for COIN-IN to succeed, it must be clandestine. That means that politicians and the military must junk the concept of transparency. President Obama’s words read like lines from a bad movie. This has no bearing on reality. The ugly…

 

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