RETHINKING SECURITY

In addition to a new piece with John P. Sullivan on narco-armor and a long post on professional reading, I’ve also been thinking a bit about “raiding” since Mark Safranski posted on the ascendance of raiding culture within the defense community.

Raiding is a slippery term (like most terms in defense analysis, unfortunately), so I thought it might be useful to illustrate something of a spectrum.

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If counterinsurgency as a theory of victory is on the wane, then we ought to take care that the “light footprint era” does not replace the predominately operational focus of the COIN era with an even flimsier operational-tactical artifice built on an attempt to equate the raiding tactical concept with a national security policy. 

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Patrick Porter is once again balling out of control with an excellent post on grand strategy: 

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