THEORY VS. PRACTICE<\/b><\/p>\n
The Small Wars Council<\/strong> <\/a>is one of my favorite discussion boards to peruse and read. Generally, as the board is primarily intended for former and current military personnel, I don’t comment there as frequently as I have in the past on history sites like HNN<\/strong> <\/a>and H-Diplo<\/strong> <\/a>but I add my two cents now and again.<\/p>\n One of those exceptions is a thread I began called “Theory vs. Practice<\/a>“. The feedback and comments so far have been stellar as experienced veterans (including Sonny<\/a><\/strong>) discuss the impact, or lack thereof, of strategic theories on the reality of making war.<\/p>\n Hat tip<\/span><\/strong> to the esteemed Younghusband<\/a><\/strong> and the irascible J. Smith<\/strong>, a frequent commenter at Federalist X’s<\/strong> excellent blog Amendment Nine<\/strong> <\/a>– both of whom inspired me to start the thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THEORY VS. PRACTICE The Small Wars Council is one of my favorite discussion boards to peruse and read. Generally, as the board is primarily intended for former and current military personnel, I don’t comment there as frequently as I have in the past on history sites like HNN and H-Diplo but I add my two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}