General William E. DePuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War

Will We Be Beneficiaries or Victims? In it, he dubbed television news coverage of military operations as the final sanction and warned that our system of government changes in administrations will bring about changes in policy that make long and inconclusive operations like that common to counterins...

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Published in:Air Power History 2009, Vol.56 (4), p.45-46
Main Author: Crosby, David F.
Format: Review
Language:English
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Special forces
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Summary:Will We Be Beneficiaries or Victims? In it, he dubbed television news coverage of military operations as the final sanction and warned that our system of government changes in administrations will bring about changes in policy that make long and inconclusive operations like that common to counterinsurgency war ineffective and in fact doomed. Because of this and the fact that they could not obtain the intelligence needed to defeat them, regular forces could not effectively battle "embedded forces."
ISSN:1044-016X