Forgeting Lessons Learned: The United States Army's Inability To Embrace Irregular Warfare

Abstract

Irregular Warfare is the most widespread form of warfare today. In fact, irregular warfare has been the most prevalent form of warfare in history. Despite its prevalence, the US Army has a history of neglecting its irregular warfare and counterinsurgency doctrine in favor of focusing on conventional warfare. The tendency of under developing relevant doctrine and training for irregular warfare has left the United States Army unprepared to develop effective strategy and perform to its ability in some conflicts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1023604

Entities

People

  • Christopher E. Fowler

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Civil War
  • Combat Areas
  • Combat Operations
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Geography
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Students
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.