Musing – Have methods of warfare really changed?

Hebraic Musing – Have methods of warfare really changed?

Stratfor Intelligence service pointed out the evolution of warfare methods in the world, but their description of modern warfare sounds strangely familiar to Christians. Here is an excerpt from Insurgency and the Protracted War, June 28, 2012, from Stratfor, an intelligence reporting group. (Full Report available on request)

One of the basic tenets of modern Western warfare, as articulated by theorists such as Carl von Clausewitz, is the desire to destroy the enemy in quick, decisive battles that break the enemy's ability -- and will -- to fight. In contrast, one of the basic doctrines of insurgent warfare, as articulated by theorists such as Mao Zedong and Vo Nguyen Giap, is to decline decisive battle when the odds are not favorable and to live to fight another day. The insurgent wants to prolong the battle and create a drawn-out, grinding war that will gradually wear down the stronger enemy while insurgent forces build up enough strength to fight a conventional war and defeat their opponents. Western military leaders, then, seek to quickly resolve a war, while insurgents seek to prolong it by any means -- even if this means ceding control of territory until they can amass the strength to take it back.  

Since Satan knows he has lost the big war, I could not help but see the relationship between this method of warfare and the warfare described in Ephesians. 6:12  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.   And Satan’s tactics are disclosed in 1^st Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.  

While the Stratfor report may be educational by helping to understand modern warfare throughout the present-day world, I do see the similarity to Satan’s methods of warfare which is some 6,700 years old.

Points to ponder

Who is really behind the warfare and disruptions in today’s news?

How is the ‘insurgency’ trying to take us down?

Shalom                                                                                    October 9, 2012

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd