War Porn
By Olivia Garard, Strategy Bridge: “War is socially organized political violence. What I mean by that is that war is directed, socially authorized violence undertaken by one human collective that identifies itself as a coherent, bounded body against another such body. This seems to me to be the best working sociological definition of war, helping us to distinguish asymmetric warfare—terrorism or guerrilla war, for example—from merely criminal violence, or to distinguish a war of occupation (in which one distinct political body is fighting against one or more distinct political bodies) from peacekeeping (in which one political body is working to establish a monopoly of violence in a situation where no other political body exists).”
By Olivia Garard, Strategy Bridge: “War is socially organized political violence. What I mean by that is that war is directed, socially authorized violence undertaken by one human collective that identifies itself as a coherent, bounded body against another such body. This seems to me to be the best working sociological definition of war, helping us to distinguish asymmetric warfare—terrorism or guerrilla war, for example—from merely criminal violence, or to distinguish a war of occupation (in which one distinct political body is fighting against one or more distinct political bodies) from peacekeeping (in which one political body is working to establish a monopoly of violence in a situation where no other political body exists).”
How Lethal, Mobile, Protected and Aware?
By Jeff Becker, Small Wars Journal: “In 2002, an obscure, yet very important study by Andrew Marshall’s Office of Net Assessment (OSD/NA) described the historical evolution of the infantry unit as a tactical system. The most important observation described how complementary and interlocking tactical systems create small unit advantages, with each part of the system “trading aspects of mobility, engagement, and protection capabilities to achieve some advantageous military characteristic.””
By Jeff Becker, Small Wars Journal: “In 2002, an obscure, yet very important study by Andrew Marshall’s Office of Net Assessment (OSD/NA) described the historical evolution of the infantry unit as a tactical system. The most important observation described how complementary and interlocking tactical systems create small unit advantages, with each part of the system “trading aspects of mobility, engagement, and protection capabilities to achieve some advantageous military characteristic.””
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