{"id":2722,"date":"2008-05-23T15:27:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2008-05-23T15:27:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T15:27:59","slug":"skelton-on-asymmetric-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Skelton on Asymmetric Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An older (2001)\u00a0PDF on the lessons of history for American leaders facing asymmetric threats by <strong>Representative Ike Skelton<\/strong> (D-Missouri). Skelton is currently the\u00a0Chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/usacac.leavenworth.army.mil\/CAC\/milreview\/English\/IAReader\/SkeltonSeptOct01.pdf\">America&#8217;s Frontier Wars: Lessons for Asymmetric Conflicts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Very nice to see a member of Congress\u00a0who thought\u00a0well ahead of the curve, demonstrating real expertise on an important national security\u00a0matter over which he has jurisdiction and considerable influence for shaping policy long-term decisions. If every member of Congress emulated Skelton, their approval rating would be a good deal higher.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abumuqawama.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/military-review-interagency-reader.html\"><strong>Charlie<\/strong> of <strong>Abu Muqawama<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An older (2001)\u00a0PDF on the lessons of history for American leaders facing asymmetric threats by Representative Ike Skelton (D-Missouri). Skelton is currently the\u00a0Chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee. America&#8217;s Frontier Wars: Lessons for Asymmetric Conflicts Very nice to see a member of Congress\u00a0who thought\u00a0well ahead of the curve, demonstrating real expertise on an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,262,304,51,199,39,367,340,270,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-4gw","category-defense","category-history","category-insurgency","category-military","category-military-history","category-military-reform","category-national-security","category-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","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=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}