On war: Lessons to be learned

Survival

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-30

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EID: 39049144459     PISSN: 00396338     EISSN: 14682699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00396330801899439     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Michael Howard, 'How Much can Technology Change Warfare?', in Michael Howard and John F. Guilmartin, Jr, Two Historians in Technology and War (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute Monographs, 2004), pp. 5-6, available at http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ssi/2hist.pdf.
2. 'The United States cannot know with confidence what nation, combination of nations, or non-state actors will pose threats to vital U.S. interests or those of our allies and friends decades from now ... A capabilities-based paradigm - one that focuses more on how an adversary might fight than on whom the adversary might be and where a war might occur - broadens the strategic perspective.' Department of Defense, Annual Report to the President and the Congress, 2002, pp. 19-20, available at http://www.dod.mil/execsec/adr2002/pdf_files/chap2.pdf.
3. Carl von Clausewitz, On War, ed. and trans. Michael Howard and Peter Paret (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976), pp. 88-9.
4. For background on defence transformation, see H.R. McMaster, 'Crack in the Foundation: Defense Transformation and the Underlying Assumption of Dominant Knowledge in Future War', US Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership, November 2003, available at http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usacsl/Publications/S03-03.pdf.
5. For a list of these article and statements, see Stephen Biddle, 'Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy', Strategic Studies Institute, Carlisle Barracks, PA, November 2002, pp. 1-3.
6. Ibid., p. 6.
7. On Iraq, see Stephen Biddle et al., 'Iraq and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy', August 2003, US Army War College, available at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/ congress/2003_hr/03-10-21warcollege.pdf. It is interesting to note that this briefing and the paper on which it is based was initially suppressed by a senior officer on the US Army Staff.
8. Interview with General William Wallace, available at http://www.pbs.org/ wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/interviews/wallace.html.
9. See interview with Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Marcone, PBS Frontline, available at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/ interviews/marcone.html#gap.
10. On Operation Anaconda, see Biddle, 'Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare'
11. also Sean Naylor, 'Operation Anaconda', paper delivered at the MIT Security Studies Program, 22 March 2006, available at http://web.mit.edu/ssp/seminars/wed_archives_06spring/naylor.htm.
12. Ephraim Inbar, 'How Israel Bungled the Second Lebanon War', Middle East Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer 2007, available at http://www.meforum.org/article/1686.
13. Ibid.
14. See also David Makovsky and Jeffrey White, 'Lessons and Implications of the Israel-Hizballah War: A Preliminary Assessment', Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Policy Focus no. 60, October 2006, available at http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/pubPDFs/ PolicyFocus60.pdf.
15. See, for example, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's FY2005 budget testimony delivered on 4 February 2004: 'The increased demand on the force we are experiencing today is likely a "spike", driven by the deployment of nearly 115,000 troops in Iraq. We hope and anticipate that that spike will be temporary. We do not expect to have 115,000 troops permanently deployed in any one campaign.' Available at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PAH/is_2004_Feb_4.
16. Major General Charles Dunlap, 'America's Asymmetric Advantage', Armed Forces Journal, available at http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/ 09/2009013.
17. Mark Rocke and David Fitchitt, 'Establishing Strategic Vectors: Charting a Path for Army Transformation', The Association of the United States Army, April 2007, available at http://www.ausa.org/pdfdocs/special/ may07.pdf.
18. Michael Howard, 'The Use and Abuse of Military History', in Michael Howard (ed.), The Causes of War and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), pp. 194-5.