Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Bomb!!! What bomb? Where?

Seems that senior military officers are just as blockheaded as their bosses. This from
www.independentclearinghouse.info/article9070.htm :

Critics: Pentagon in blinders
Long before 9/11, the military was warned about low-tech warfare, but it didn't listen
By Stephen J. Hedges
Washington Bureau
06/06/05 "Chicago Tribune" - -
WASHINGTON --

Nearly 16 years ago, a group of four military officers and a civilian predicted the rise of terrorism and anti-American insurgencies with chilling accuracy.The group said U.S. military technology was so advanced that foreign forces would be unlikely to challenge it directly, and it forecast that future foes would be non-state insurgents and terrorists whose weapons would be suicide car bombs, not precision-guided weapons.

"Today, the United States is spending $500 million apiece for stealth bombers," the group wrote in a 1989 article that appeared in a professional military journal.

"A terrorist stealth bomber is a car with a bomb in the trunk--a car that looks like every other car."

The five men dubbed their theory "Fourth Generation Warfare" and warned that the U.S. military had to adapt. In the years since, the original group of officers, joined by a growing number of officers and scholars within the military, has pressed Pentagon leaders to acknowledge this emerging threat.But rather than adopting a new strategy, the generals and civilian leaders in the Defense Department have continued to support conventional, high-intensity conflict and the expensive weapons that go with it. That is happening, critics say, despite lethal insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.....

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