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Abstract This article lays down the author’s experiences commanding RTF-3’s Security Task Group in Afghanistan during 2007 and 2008. From a significant study of the Mujahideen and Taliban prior to his deployment, the author was able to determine eleven tactical principles that guided the employment of his forces, and they are provided in this article for the benefit of future commanders. The author points out that his eleven principles, and his experience of employing them, clearly proved the enduring …
The wording might have changed a little since Chinese general Sun Tzu brushed ‘ The Art of War ’ in circa sixth century BC, but the meaning today is clear enough: Know thy enemy and know thyself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know thyself but not thy enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know thy enemy but not thyself, wallow in defeat every time. 1 If you argue that an enemy never harboured desires for your soil, one would think that, had you the opportunity, you would go to the sources of the …
Captain Timothy C Winegard received a masters degree in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada in 2006. He is currently in the final year of his PhD at the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College. His dissertation, under the direction of Professor Hew Strachan, is a comparative study on the use and treatment of Indigenous peoples from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland and South Africa during the First World War. He has published numerous articles, chapters and one monograph in …