China Laughs at the US Approach to Irregular Warfare!

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The article discusses China's critique of the US's approach to irregular warfare, highlighting the importance of cognitive, unconventional, and political warfare components. It also critiques bureaucratic struggles over command and control in such warfare.

Over the past four years, more than 100 articles and op-eds have dissected irregular warfare—some good, some bad, and some downright ugly. The good ones look past the purely kinetic to explore critical sub-components like cognitive, unconventional, and political warfare. The mediocre ones bog down in bureaucratic debates over which specific command, agency, or organization should manage these units and … Read more The post China Laughs at the US Approach to Irregular Warfare! appeared first on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University.