{"id":2132,"date":"2004-01-13T03:54:33","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T19:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/13\/army-war-college-blasts-war-on-terror\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T23:10:52","slug":"army-war-college-blasts-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/13\/army-war-college-blasts-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Army War College blasts &#8216;War on Terror&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12355,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/articles\\\/A8435-2004Jan11.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12356,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.carlisle.army.mil\\\/ssi\\\/pubs\\\/2003\\\/bounding\\\/bounding.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12357,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.muhajabah.com\\\/islamicblog\\\/archives\\\/the_clipboard\\\/007914.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A8435-2004Jan11.html\" title=\"Study Published by Army Criticizes War on Terror's Scope \">A scathing new report published by the Army War College broadly criticizes the Bush administration&#8217;s handling of the war on terrorism<\/a>, accusing it of taking a detour into an &#8220;unnecessary&#8221; war in Iraq and pursuing an &#8220;unrealistic&#8221; quest against terrorism that may lead to U.S. wars with states that pose no serious threat.<\/p>\n<p>  The report, by Jeffrey Record, a visiting professor at the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, warns that as a result of those mistakes, the Army is &#8220;near the breaking point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  It recommends, among other things, scaling back the scope of the &#8220;global war on terrorism&#8221; and instead focusing on the narrower threat posed by the al Qaeda terrorist network.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;&#91;T&#93;he global war on terrorism as currently defined and waged is dangerously indiscriminate and ambitious, and accordingly . . . its parameters should be readjusted,&#8221; Record writes. Currently, he adds, the anti-terrorism campaign &#8220;is strategically unfocused, promises more than it can deliver, and threatens to dissipate U.S. military resources in an endless and hopeless search for absolute security.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full 56-page report can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlisle.army.mil\/ssi\/pubs\/2003\/bounding\/bounding.htm\" title=\"Publications of Strategic Studies Institute (SSI)\">Strategic Studies Institute website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muhajabah.com\/islamicblog\/archives\/the_clipboard\/007914.php\" title=\"Study Published by Army Criticizes War on Terror's Scope\">Al-Muhajabah<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Memories of the Future&#8221; by Edge of Motion from the album <em>Essential Chillout<\/em> (2000, 13:02).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scathing new report published by the Army War College broadly criticizes the Bush administration&#8217;s handling of the war on terrorism, accusing it of taking a detour into an &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; war in Iraq and pursuing an &#8216;unrealistic&#8217; quest against terrorism that may lead to U.S. wars with states that pose no serious threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}