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This again! There *are* US SOF on the ground on counterterrorism missions in both Yemen (as the White House itself acknowledged earlier this summer; they’re SEALs and Raiders called TF 3) and Somalia (the Pentagon line is “under 100” who’ve stayed since the January drawdown). https://twitter.com/rabrowne75/status/1432413991507316747 …
The over-the-horizon line feels to me like more of the cult of airpower. Honestly I keep thinking I should assign ch2 of the Hardest Place (the strike on the Rabbanis compound) to my Global History of Warfare students..."Read this and write an essay on the limits of airpower."
Too many 'experts' look at precision-guided munitions and assume they've found Thucydides' arrow able to tell the valorous from the coward. But the bomb is only as smart as the intel that chooses it targets. Unlike a soldier, it cannot see, it cannot exercise restraint.
I'd argue that WWII Japan is the trickiest example - it is clearly the closest that strategic airpower ever got to winning a war. The more one-sided example is actually the air-war in Europe.
Wasn't that also the chapter where we took the most promising Afghan liaison who was most US-friendly, then kidnapped him and put him in gitmo based on faulty intelligence?
Indeed.
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