1 Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2 Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
3 Wherever possible go outside the experience of the enemy. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.
4 Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
5 Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
6 A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.
7 A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment, like going to church on Sunday mornings.
8 Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9 The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10 The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.
11 If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.
12 he price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand and saying "You're right — we don't know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us."
13 Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
THIS IS RIGHT VS LEFT OR THE OTHER WAY AROUND.. think on it
@swirlie The Vietnam War and the Kargil War were undeclared wars and hence are sometimes described as police actions. The Soviet–Afghan War was an undeclared war and hence also could be described as a police action, especially since the initial troop deployments into Afghanistan were at the request of the Afghan government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_action
now wiki could be wrong so here is a different one. .. i got out of hight school 1975 The last draft call was on December 7, 1972, and the authority to induct expired on June 30, 1973. The date of the last drawing for the lottery was on March 12, 1975. Registration with the Selective Service System was suspended on April 1, 1975, and registrant processing was suspended on January 27, 1976.
The Vietnam War is technically considered a 'police action' because the United States Congress never formally declared war.
@markinkansas The reason the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War is NOW considered a 'police action' ..which you found on Google Search is for three reasons:
1) The USA lost the Vietnam and subsequently retreated from the battle zone because of the US military's gross incompetence at jungle warfare.
2) The USA lost the Afghan War and once again retreated from the region was because of the US military's gross incompetence at mountain warfare.
3) The Google Search that you've conducted to extract this fractured information is a web search engine that is now fully controlled by the US government under the Trump Regime and is therefore censored in America's favor so that the USA isn't perceived at losing ANY war or failing at anything or not paying it's bills.
The truth is, the US military has lost every war it ever started in the last 113 years if you want to know anything about US military history.
