Warfare within the context of overall Statecraft, Integrated warfare, Information warfare, Asymmetric warfare, Grey-zone warfare, Psychology w.r.t. Propaganda/Reflexive control/Active measures, Behavioural game theory etc.
All the tactics/technology/manpower/training/stories/anecdotes are insufficient if one does not have an understanding of the overall strategic theory within which they operate.
"Winning" has many forms depending upon the context.
PS: List of military strategies and concepts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_strategies_an...
trhway•2h ago
somehow i feel that the Pentagon leadership didn't read that book before starting the Iran affair.
Frieren•1h ago
The current Pentagon leadership is the kind of people that buy thousands of books with public money that nobody will read (written by their friends).
- "Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card" is the only one from the list I have read.
- "This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History, by T. R. Fehrenbach" seems interesting. South Korea still seems very grateful to the USA and commemorates the USA (and the rest of allies) that helped them during the Korean war.
trhway•1h ago
For "easy reading"- viewing - on that war there are somewhat informative - in very coarse grain sense - movies that i watched recently:
SK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Jangsari
China (with heavy propaganda angle of course and a big budget): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_at_Lake_Changjin
pjc50•1h ago
It's one of those things like the San Andreas fault. Just because nothing has happened for decades doesn't mean the risk has gone away.
cpursley•1h ago
roenxi•1h ago
If we're talking the likes of Hegseth and Trump then we're all waiting for the inside gossip on exactly what mad assumptions they were making that led to this scheme looking acceptable. Maybe Trump is going senile too, maybe the Israelis managed to sell a story, maybe the US is being deceptive and it is some sort of anti-China attempt.