1. Most wars are asymmetrical or irregular.2. In these wars, the guerrillas/irregulars/insurgents do not aim for military victory.3. You can not defeat these groups by killing lots of their members. In fact, they want you to do that.4. High-tech weaponry is mostly useless in these wars.5. “Hearts and minds, ” meaning propaganda and morale, are more important than military superiority.6. Most people are not rational; they are tribal: “My gang yeah, your gang boo! ” It really is that simple. The rest is cosmetics. Gary Brecher
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The idea that war is only about the military -- what the army does to try to win or defeat their enemy -- is a slow slow death for the human race. With the right attitude, you can take even the mightiest army and shrink it down to nothing. The US has won wars before, but it's not the military that won them. It was the people who stood up against their government and said no. This is because people are rational, not tribal: there's no such thing as a 'my gang yeah, your gang boo!' mentality in any large group of humans: we're all in this together.

Source: The War Nerd

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