As the famous Prussian general once warned, the first priority is to ascertain what type of conflict is to be fought. Carl von Clausewitz's seminal writings laid the foundation of thinking for modern warfare defined around the needs of the nascent Westphalian nation-state. His prioritization, his wonderful trinity, and his recognition that war is but politics by other means have served both strategist and statesman well during the conventional wars ...
As the new Joint Operating Concept for Irregular Warfare hits combatant commands and doctrine shops across the U.S. military, we find ourselves searching for new intellectual aids and policy tools that can provide certainty in an age that seems increasingly unpredictable and irregular. We look back longingly to an age in which the battlefield was understandable, in which we thought we knew the enemy and the methods and means at ...
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