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A 5 page discussion of the importance of knowing and understanding an enemy, estimating
their strengths, capabilities, and weaknesses. The author points out that with the exception of the Civil War, the U.S. has never really fully
understood our enemies. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPmilUnd.rtf
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military understands its enemy can make the difference between loosing or winning a war. Estimating enemy capabilities and intentions is a critical component of counteracting those capabilities and intentions.
The United States, of course, fought four major wars in the twentieth century (World War I, World War II, Korean War, and the Vietnam War). Each came with
numerous lessons that were not only applicable to the time but to the future. Each was declared a preemptive war, the objective of each was to prevent additional wars.
Each, of course, failed in meeting this objective. Interestingly, it can be contended that with the exception of the Civil War (an exception that will be discussed more
thoroughly below) the U.S has never fully understood the ideological drive that has characterized her enemies. This was particularly true in the mindset that dominated our interactions with the
Japanese during World War II, the mindset that was at play during the Korean war, during the Vietnam War and certainly in the war on terrorism that we are waging
today. In the Civil War, however, we did fully understand our enemies because in reality they were us. Because of that in-depth understanding we were able to access
strengths and weaknesses to a degree that we have never been able to accomplish in subsequent wars. In the Civil War we were
not facing an enemy in a foreign country and from a foreign culture. Instead we were facing our own countrymen. We were, therefore, intimately aware of their ideological
drive and their military strengths and weaknesses. Consider, for example, the importance of artillery and supply lines in this war. Artillery required very elaborate construction techniques and thus
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