Quote Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
Alright, granted, perhaps I should not have said a "brand new type of warfare", but, instead a brand ORGANISED brand of warfare, with a leader who knows what he is doing!! And, who knows, how to do it for the best results!! THAT is something the world has yet to see, to this point, or to this scale!! YES: SCALE is important here! Never before has a terror campaign been waged against whole countries with such affect!! Check Spain, btw! Check you, too!
Care to argue? Or, would you care to contemplate?
Yeah...think about it: (you to Cleetus the historian)
http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/asymmetric.cfm#form
Some good points made in your link:
Extracts from the report, Reforging the Sword: U.S. Forces for a 21st Century Security Strategy,

Understand that military force is not the only, or necessarily the best, means of achieving national goals — excessive or inappropriate use of force breeds resentment and plants the seeds of future conflict.

Attract allies to one's own side, and subtract them from an opponent's side.
Understand that success in conflict depends most upon people, then ideas, and least upon hardware.
End a fixation on complex hardware, which is not only unreliable and expensive, but also creates complex bureaucracies to build, deploy, operate, supply, and fix it — bureaucracies that are unsuited to exercising the most important components of third- and fourth-generation warfare strategy: agility, quickness,
Focus on two major and complementary elements: create "harmony" and cohesion on one's own side, and foster chaos and paralysis on the other side
This exactly what we are NOT doing.