to be honest, I thought about sending this in Chapter by Chapter, like I did the Mask of Command paper, but this one has a more overlapping flow, and was written from beginning to end as MoC paper was actually written in different stages. So, here's the mother load, My Final Paper for my Bachelors in Military History. All 24 pages of it. Enjoy!
Title Page:
The Flashing Sword of Vengeance:
Unleashing the World's Most Powerful Defense
--a study of America's pursuit of Clausewitzian Strategy following 9-11
The object of war is (a) to impose our will on the enemy, to do which (b) we use the means of maximum available force, with (c) the aim of rendering him powerless.
Table of Contents:
Introduction - America Attackedpage 3
Projection - America Re-establishes itselfpage 4
The Operational Art of War - Defined and appliedpage 5
Continuation of Politics - defining roles of the civil-military relationshipspage 6
America's Clausewitz-tzu-clausewitz themespage 7
Power of Resistance - 9-11 becomes the American resolvepage 10
Schwerpunkt - the transition to the counterattack the enemy
Page 11
Sun Tzu - and the art of "non"warpage 13
Why Tzu? -the courses of action that allowed America's pursuit of Sun Tzupage 14
Victory Essentials and OODA loops - point takenpage 16
Enter von Clausewitz -shelving of the Art of Warpage 17
4GW, conventional war, and the new pathpage 18
Power of Resistance - 9-11 becomes the American resolvepage 19
Pax Americana - license to kill (sort of) - The Conclusionpage 21
Works Citedpage 22
End Notespage 23
Body
-- The Flashing Sword of Vengeance --
"You called down the Thunder, well now you got it"
-Wyatt Earp
Introduction - America Attacked
As America pursues its War on Terrorism it will follow certain strategies and philosophies based off the authority...
Missed the Point-----
Shakes,
America preparing for war is not about world conquest or flexing our sole Superpower status. Saddam MUST be taken out of power, he's a nut case that is bent on controlling the Middle East, with two invasions of his neighbors already under his belt.
America would have taken him out in 91, but the agreement with the Coalition forces that helped Kuwait made us agree NOT to replace him...now, 10 years later, he is playing the same games, and we will go in and take him out.
No, not everyone will agree with the decision. No, not everyone will understand. But, when we do go, and are targets of Bio/Chem weapons (you know,the ones he "doesn't have") and we find even more than what was claimed, then Germany and France should ensure they don't stick their little hands out to receive the oil they so desperately covet. Russia has already shown its ass--now that their delaying techniques have shown not to affect our war plans, they have sent personnel to finalize oil import deals with Iraq!! C'mon.
If you think we are wrong, fine. Just think about this:
In 1930s a mad man thought about world domination. By 1939 he was all but unstoppable. He invaded Czech, and France and Britian decided to just hope he would go away. Then he rolled into Poland, and even though Brits and French condemened it, they were unable to reverse it, and allowed the occupation to continue. Then, France realized its own folly when in a mere 3 days, Paris fell. The man was Hitler! How would the world be had a coalition decided to oust him before he was out of control? How would the world be if he were not defeated when he was already devising plans for his own Atom bomb and V12 rockets that could reach all the way to London?
What if Hitler was suspected of having WMD, would we still sit around and wait before stopping that mad man? would we try to squeeze in last minute deals for BMWs and Mercedes before finally agreeing to military action? Would we turn our backs on long standing allies? I think not! Yet, its happening even now, that America prepares to go it alone (with a small amount of REAL allies)!
Oh, and my University will remain nameless, as I have posted here direct Questions and Answers to professor Exams. :)
ANd, Shakes, are you an English as a 2nd Language student? Not trying to be smartass, but with a German wife, I can tell you that your use of words, grammar, sentence structure and the works are very similiar....you need to really work on that if you are going to write a comment that states no one cares about the draftees of the Iraqi army, and etc.
No one hopes for peace more than the soldiers who are standing by to fight it.....
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