Recent content by mcc457

Thanks for this. Your history mostly gels with my understanding of things. But targeting of leadership to paralyze command (or just to harass) in conventional warfare seems pretty different to conducting an entire campaign working over the network - that seems much more prominent in...

I apologize - certainly your list refutes the argument that only conventional warfare is presented in film and text. I would also agree that the tactics shown in SoM are not new. But the overall strategy and theme is, and it doesn't appear in our stories much at all. The action in SoM struck...

These are not CT texts. The protagonists are not engaged in identifying, degrading and eventually rolling up terrorist networks. Often they are actually the network under attack. Clandestine networks are employed against the powerful, and though in SoM the power asymmetry is inverted (sort of)...