A Recentralized War

"There is the war I trained for. Studied. And sweated over. The powers-that-be call it decentralized warfare. It is a theory that has succeeded before in practice; the most cited modern example being the involvement of the British in Malaysia. This is where small units like platoons function as nigh-independent entities, operating free of bureaucratic restraints and traditional military sluggishness. It’s the counterinsurgency’s version of a cell. Here, in this malleable, flexible world, creativity and ingenuity replace buzz words and reactionary constrictions as the central pillars of a military’s output. You are not simply marking time in this kind of war, you are making it. This type of war is a Lieutenant’s dream and a General’s nightmare – where power is dispersed and control is scattered to the thousand corners. Traditionally, the order of war dissolves into anarchy as time yields more and more blood. This theory, this dream, this purported historical success – it is the inverse of conventional battle, because it is through the anarchy of bloodshed that order is established. This is the war I trained for and studied and sweated over.

Then there is the war I fight."
Kaboom