USA has the only strategy there is for the time, ie, the small wars of insurgency - counterinsurgency.
We're not going to deploy 500,000 troops as we did in Vietnam.
We're not going to get a driven back to the 38th parallel situation as occurred in Korea which was fought at the level of division warfare and army groups, air forces, naval support etc.
Desert Storm and its 500,000 troops in an allied coalition are out, although our counterinsurgency ops always include allies, Nato especially but not only. But nothing DS big again, certainly not foreseeably.
We're not going to nuke 'em and that's a given.
So we're going to do small wars. Nobody military says this is a bad strategy of war, small wars. Indeed what it comes down to is the next level below strategy, operations.
We need to simply pass through the American peoples compulsion to have the enemy come out for the final time with their hands up and sign the surrender document so we can all go home. In small wars that never happens. No document is trustworthy. No enemy leader or group is credible in negotiations. They're still waiting us out so let them wait some more. And die some more to our superior fighters, their leaders, our equipment, training, discipline, dedication and our cause of freedom as passed on to us by our forebears. And for our posterity.
In small wars we're fighting 'em over there instead of fighting 'em over here. It's the only way to do it.
