Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:03:19 AM
Fighting the Evil of Islamic Terrorism placed the United States on an exceptionally adverse battlefield analogous to using in battle light cavalry corps of the time of Napoleonic Wars against heavy tank units of World War II.” - Boris Tiraspolsky
"Useful Art" of engraving St. Michael Fighting the Dragon
by Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
St. Michael battles with the dragon (see Revelation 12:7-10). St. Michael ends up defeating the dragon and driving him out of heaven. In this classic battle of Good versus Evil, Evil loses.
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Bitter Lessons of the Global War on Terror
The Global War on Terrorism brings more questions then answers, at the present time. For instance, on the February 26th of 1993 the United States became a target for terrorist attacks by Islamic jihadists on own territory. Battle against Terrorism had begun on the American soil!
Since then, the United States mobilized entire military, entire intelligence, entire law enforcement to fight Terrorism worldwide. In spite of all that, in more then fourteen years the Nation continues to be in danger of direct ominous terrorist attacks by International and homegrown terrorists. Why?
Why did the brilliant anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan and triumphant military campaign to liberate Iraq turned to be just tactical achievements of the United States in the Global War on Terror?
In contrast, every new terrorist act by Islamic jihadists, regardless of a size and success is in fact a strategic defeat of the United States. The answer seems simple, but hard to digest: worldwide battle against Terrorism is newest type of warfare that the United States are conducting with “old good” strategy and tactics of wars of the past.
One of the strategic lessons of the War on Terror is that terrorists are not just “little enemy”. They are the latest type of international aggressor managed to wage worldwide war that was never fought before in the History of the Mankind.
Islamic jihadist's global strategy combined with tactics of suicide bombings brought never confronted before ideologically charged techno-intelligent ongoing battle on omnipresent encircled battlefield with a center everywhere and circ-umference nowhere.
The “ideological” part of this extraordinary line of attack adapted by Islamic jihadists consists of a human sacrifice for a sake of complete destruction of the “infidel”, “manipulative”, and “decadent” Western Civilization and establishing the Islamic Caliphate ruled by the Islamic Law, as the Supreme Law of the Land.
The terrorist’s “techno-intelligent” part utilizes all latest developments in modern weaponry, including potential usage of Weapons of Mass Destruction in order to achieve the desired “ideological“ goal.
Another strategic lesson of the Global War on Terror is that terrorists have to be combated equally effective on all fronts, domestically and worldwide. Otherwise, these international aggressors continue to maintain their full capability of striking with any weapons, at any time, and any place.
Hence, as long as the United States remain to be a direct target for terrorist attacks, the terrorist’s “Invisible Hand” is actually in control of battlefield, at very least. And it is impossible to compensate this existing fundamental strategic weakness by performing most impressive tactical operations.
Obviously, that one who controls the atypical battlefield in this obscure terrorist warfare is the one who determines the course of all actions in worldwide battle.
Islamic jihadism, as a global form of Terror armed with powerful ideology, economics, modern technology, potentially Weapons of Mass Destruction irreversibly changed a strategic paradigm of modern warfare.
The latter is not about a wining or loosing battle anymore, it is all about either a partial survival, or total annihilation of Nations and States. This is another bitter, yet most important lesson one should learn in this battle of Good and Evil.
Boris Tiraspolsky
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