Overcoming A Clausewitz-Centric Mindset In Nontraditional Wars – Analysis

By G.L. Lamborn

(FPRI) — Standing in the heat at Gia Lam airfield in Spring 1975, respected author and military theorist Colonel Harry Summers was puzzled. Despite ten years of US support, the deployment of nearly 500,000 US soldiers and Marines, the provision of heavy weaponry and helicopters, and the expenditure of an...