{"id":3682,"date":"2013-05-02T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2013-05-06T12:16:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T10:16:37","slug":"middle-war-the-new-normal-going-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/05\/middle-war-the-new-normal-going-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Middle War&#8221;: The new normal going forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3683\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3683\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3683\" alt=\"The face of Middle War: documents and weapons sized in raid in Al-Alam, Iraq. Photo by Uathor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MiddleWar-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MiddleWar-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MiddleWar-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MiddleWar.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The face of Middle War: documents. cash, and weapons\u00c2\u00a0seized\u00c2\u00a0during a raid in Al-Alam, Iraq in 2004 by the author. \u00c2\u00a0There was plenty of other\u00c2\u00a0stuff\u00c2\u00a0but this is the best picture.<br \/>Photo by Me during my tour downrange<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Center for Strategic and International Studies has just released <em><a href=\"https:\/\/csis.org\/files\/publication\/130424_Freier_BeyondLastWar_Web.pdf\">Beyond the Last War:\u00c2\u00a0Balancing Ground Forces and Future Challenges Risk\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/csis.org\/files\/publication\/130424_Freier_BeyondLastWar_Web.pdf\">in USCENTCOM and USPACOM<\/a><\/em>. \u00c2\u00a0The report makes for interesting reading. \u00c2\u00a0What I found the most interesting aside from the scenarios considered was the realization that air power and spec-ops troops cannot win wars by themselves. \u00c2\u00a0Conventional military forces will be required into the\u00c2\u00a0foreseeable\u00c2\u00a0future. \u00c2\u00a0That view alone is a breath of fresh air given the\u00c2\u00a0Pentagon&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0lamentable tendency over the past few years to tour both types of forces while the simple ground-pounders are out there doing Yeoman&#8217;s work trying to make an unstable world more stable. \u00c2\u00a0High profile raids and airstrikes do not a war make. \u00c2\u00a0It is the infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers out there interacting, fighting, and dying on a daily basis that win wars. \u00c2\u00a0In fact, I cannot think of one war that ended by decapitation strike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Strategic and International Studies has just released Beyond the Last War:\u00c2\u00a0Balancing Ground Forces and Future Challenges Risk\u00c2\u00a0in USCENTCOM and USPACOM. \u00c2\u00a0The report makes for interesting reading. \u00c2\u00a0What I found the most interesting aside from the scenarios considered&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/05\/middle-war-the-new-normal-going-forward\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,125,482,199,24,60,81,460],"tags":[150,743,83,472,42],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campaigns-operations","category-current-events","category-geopolitics-statecraft","category-military-culture","category-military-technology","category-contemporary-wars","category-political-history","category-military-strategy","tag-contemporary-war","tag-future-war","tag-geopolitics","tag-military-affairs","tag-military-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}