No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfare Primer

Re:No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfa... by paganel on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:13AM (#5219090)

> Both Iraq wars were fought and won with maneuver warfare.

They were won from a tactical perspective, but I'd say that strategically the second one was lost (while the first one was not such a clear-cut victory either, with Saddam still clinging to his post). Yes, I know that the US had their "mission accomplished", but true war is never that, is only "the continuation of politics by other means". True war has nothing to do with video games (with the probable exception of "Eve Online")

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Re:No Combat Without Movement: Enders Game as Maneuver Warfa... by run4yourlives on Thursday February 14, 2013 @10:39AM (#5219903)

Irrelevant to my observation really.

The point is that the actual warfare component of the war was fought and won with the doctrine the GP suggests was yesterday's tactics.

The occupation of Iraq - notably barely a war never mind a use of maneuver - is where the US is failing.

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