Winston Churchill once said: “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” The article '2007: Strategic Thinking Needed in Fighting Global Jihad' by By Jeffrey Imm was published on the December 31 2006. Approximately at the same Brig. Gen. Mark O. Schissler, USAF deputy director for the war on terrorism within the strategic plans office of the Pentagon's Joint Staff made his strategic remarks about ideological nature of the War on Terror (Read More...). Obviously, strategic thinking never comes easy. However, it looks like our enemy - Islamic jihadists have it, and we still do not get it. - Boris Tiraspolsky
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2007: Strategic Thinking Needed in Fighting Global Jihad
by By Jeffrey Imm
The United States of America has some of the smartest leaders in government, military, and business in the world. Yet the American government has failed to collectively use this formidable brain-power 5+ years after the attack by Jihadists on the American homeland to develop a truly strategic plan to fight the global threat of Jihad and Islamist extremism. In one of the most complex wars in American history, rather than starting with holistic, big-picture thinking towards the challenges and prioritizing resources and actions accordingly, America has spent much of the past five years after 9/11 in reactive and bureaucratic churning.
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