The Chain of Combat

Mar 29, 2023
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The Bazaar of War
The Chain of Combat, Part 1
America’s two-decade involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq ranks as one of the most substantial commitments of military power outside its traditional role. An organization designed to fight major wars against peer competitors found itself engaged in a protracted police action, oriented around th…
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The Bazaar of War
The Chain of Combat, Part 2
In Part 1 on the chain of combat, we looked at a different way of classifying armed conflicts, based not on the scale of fighting or asymmetry of forces, but on the overall coherence of combat operations. This framework is useful for describing many conflicts Western nations have waged in the post-WWII and especially post-Cold War era: European nations…
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2 years ago · 7 likes · Ben