06-13-2008, 08:34 AM
Retrospectives eh?
I like this guy's writing on the type of warfare I think the US-Iraq war is in at the moment.
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/paramet...er/goulding.htm
Although I find the above link a good read, to me it deals more with specifics of a type of war rather than the general reasoning and justification for unleashing war. For that, I prefer this guy's take on it.
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
Even if some of his predictions about large scale chemical warfare did not (thankfully) come to full fruition, most of it is depressingly still valid today. I applaud his '3 steps', but I have serious doubts on the existence of the necessary political will and guts to do it (in any country).