Yellow smoke : the future of land warfare for America's military

by Robert H. Scales

Paper Book, 2003

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Available

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2003.

Description

Draws upon military career and wars dating back to Korea for lessons for America's land wars. The scales in this book look at Afghanistan and Iraq, and ahead to a war game scenario of Kosovo 2020, to develop a picture of the American style of war.

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MG Scales is one of the great military thinkers of the modern age, and this book reflects the vast effort of thought he has put into military problems during his career. His thesis, that in limited-objectives warfare, technology enabled firepower is the key way to destroy the enemy, and that
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close-combat maneuver forces are for 'findin' em and fixin' em.' To some degree, I agree with his thesis, but note that my personal experiences in Iraq taught me that A) clese combat with the insurgents is the most efficient way to inflict mass casualties on the insurgents; B) the insurgent's capability of hiding themselves in the populace prevents the use of massed fires and target detection, not to mention the politically unpalatable possibility of collateral casualties. As usual, MG Scales writes well, and thoroughly understands his subject.
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