Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself

After a year fighting insurgents in Iraq, an anonymous Army lieutenant colonel says:

Chinese war philosopher Sun Tzu had it right. If you know your enemy and if you know yourself, you'll never lose. We know about half of what we should about the enemy, and we don't know ourselves. We can't figure out what kind of Army we want to be.

This article on Fourth Generation Warfare suggests the USA (which this year spent $455 billion on war, almost half the global figure) is wasting money while failing to win in Iraq and Afghanistan because of old-fashioned weapons, techniques and concepts.

The thing is, I don't think the Bushites see it as wasting money. After all, they are fuelled by the big business military-industrial machine: as long as they can keep pumping taxpayer's funds into this machine, they and their big money mates are all winners. Who cares how many soldiers die? Who cares about terrorists? Heck, bring 'em on!