Has the US Military Really Lost ‘The Art of Killing’?
Why the U.S. military’s obsession with decisive battle is not a good thing.
By Franz-Stefan Gady
February 16, 2018
The U.S. Naval Institute published an article in the December 2017 issue of Proceedings Magazine titled “Can’t Kill Enough to Win? Think Again.†The authors, two retired U.S. military officers, argue that existing military rules of engagement prevent U.S. forces from acting with the “necessary savagery and purposefulness†to kill their way to victory.
The U.S. military, they charge, has lost “the art of killing†and consequently, unlike during the U.S. Civil War and World War II, has been unable to break the will of “Islamic terrorists worldwide,†which has doomed U.S. military efforts over the last decade to failure.
https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/has-the-us-military-really-lost-the-art-of-killing/
