“The intent of U.S. [Unconventional Warfare] UW efforts is to exploit a hostile power’s political, military, economic, and psychological vulnerabilities by developing and sustaining resistance forces to accomplish U.S. strategic objectives…For the foreseeable future, U.S. forces will predominantly engage in irregular warfare (IW) operations.” So begins the 2010 Unconventional Warfare (UW) Manual of the US … Continue reading Going Rogue: America’s Unconventional Warfare in the Middle East