All war all the time

Interesting article that explains Fourth Generation Warfare.

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Fourth Generation War, which is now killing a few more American soldiers every day in Iraq, marks the end of the state's monopoly on war.

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President Bush's proclamation of victory in Iraq is looking more than slightly premature. The pace of fighting there is picking up, not slowing down,

as American troops face Baathists, gangs of looters, Shiites, Arab fedayeen (who are still coming into Iraq to fight us), Wahabi mujahedeen, and so on. Because these enemies are not states, they have nothing we can bomb, no tanks we can take out, no capital we can occupy. And each one is a Hydra: Every time we kill an enemy, we recruit more.

It is not just conservatives in Washington who do not understand the kind of war we are now engaged in. No one in Washington does. Certainly the Pentagon does not. The high-tech weapons on which it lavishes billions are completely irrelevant to Fourth Generation War. A joke in Israel puts it well: Why does Israel need its own spy satellites? So it can see a 12-year-old Palestinian boy picking up a stone.

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