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The Pentagon this week approved a major policy directive that elevates the military's mission of "irregular warfare" -- the increasingly prevalent campaigns to battle insurgents and terrorists, often with foreign partners and sometimes clandestinely -- to an equal footing with traditional combat. (h/t Moon of Alabama)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120303495.html?nav=rss_nation --- or click sig ...
It is now War Department policy to conduct independently guerrilla warfare, subversion, sabotage and intelligence activities to establish or re-establish order in a fragile state.
These activities were CIA activities back in the day of the cold war. Now the DoW (Dept. of War) is going to do as they damn well please anywhere on the planet. Hosanna in the Highest?
