A cogent, and sane strategy for fighting a 1,400 year old adversary to freedom; written by a sound military strategist.
Linked into Col. West's missive today about an important issue that our US Leadership should be focused on: defeating islamic jihad-ism
Yes, we’re having success, but there’s a wholehearted difference between tactical successes and strategic victory. We are embroiled in an ideological conflagration with Islamic jihadism. It’s what they term the struggle between Dar-al-Islam and Dar-al-Harb: that is their strategic vision, with which we’ve had almost 1400 years of battles. Killing al-Baghdadi, bin Laden, or winning back Mosul are tactical wins, but do not portend to be strategic successes, unless we have a large combination of those tactical wins that deny the enemy their strategic goals and objectives…which they kindly tell us.
HERE ARE THE FUNDAMENTALS of how to WAGE THE WAR and defeat the ENEMY
http://www.allenbwest.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/West.pdf
Download and read the entire report - briefly excerted below.
Intro from Col. West: Back in the January-February 2016 edition of Military Review, the Professional Journal of the U.S. Army, I presented a strategy to combat Islamic jihadism, you can read it here.
The Future of Warfare against Islamic Jihadism
Engaging and Defeating Nonstate, Nonuniformed Unlawful Enemy Combatants
Lt. Col. Allen B. West, U.S. Army, Retired
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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The current conflagration in which our nation—actually
the world—finds itself in, contending with the
issue of Islamic jihadism, makes Sun Tzu’s quote seem
quite applicable. When we fail to recognize the global
Islamic jihadist movement, we lack the ability to understand the history, goals, and objectives of this enemy who consistently articulates its designs, only to be discarded or dismissed by U.S. leadership. Though some feel that identifying the enemy is unnecessary, failing to do so puts us at a clear disadvantage in achieving victory, as Sun Tzu would postulate. Even the moniker “war on terror” is a horrible misnomer. A nation cannot fight a tactic,
which is what terror is—a means to an end. It would
be the same as if we referred to World War II as the “war on the blitzkrieg” or the “battle against the kamikaze.”
Currently, the world is focused on the Islamic State
in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). But, how does the United States face this unlawful enemy combatant on today’s battlefield? The United States and its Western allies should consider ISIS their greatest threat. However, we should not discount the threat posed by other groups such as Boko Haram and al-Qaida. Let us use the quote of Sun Tzu to present a policy direction and solution to engage and defeat not just ISIS, but the global Islamic jihad.
>> end excerpts - read the rest for the guts of the plan.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good ...
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