Losing Small Wars: Why US Military Culture Leads to Defeat | Small Wars Journal

Extremely Interesting & Informative share LTC Eric Udouj! Thank You for sharing!

Hate the idea of "an eye in the sky" dictating COA in ground fight. May have slept through that instruction those (many) years ago but, as an Advisor of CIDG/Regional Forces in the Central Highlands, I didn't merit that level of upper brass attention. Had that been the case, I probably would have over-used the phrase, "You're coming in broken!" Don't know how practical the ideas expressed in this article are in terms of implementation. A major shift, for sure, and then what. Chaos is chaos. Interesting that the German high command's major complaint about fighting Americans was that they (we) didn't follow our own doctrine meaning, of course, that we were highly unpredictable on the battlefield. This is a great, thought provoking article and I appreciate your posting it, LTC Eric Udouj .

This kind of reminds me of the Capitol Building riot. There was a lot of violence at the building, but the NG had to wait hours to get approval from the Department of the Army and or the DOD. I forgot who really was the decision maker(s). At that point the purpose of the NG was to augment the Capitol Police and secure the building, but they were late to arrive.