Physics War Strategy 2

Subject:	Physics War Strategy 2
Date:	Sun, 6 Dec 2009 15:53:01 -0800 (PST)

I notice that two readers so far have replied to part 1 of this, which
is a good sign at least in a physics forum. I will try to rush
forward here, however, with part 2 since so much remains to be done.

It is common practice now in the best arXiv papers in physics and
mathematics to give one's results "up front", more or less in the
first section after the Abstract, so I will try to indicate what I
expect the results to look like. Before that, I will give some
initial references so that readers can construct their own Strategies
and Strategy papers: (i) Donald Kagan (Yale U., USA), "On the origins
of war and the preservation of peace," Anchor Books/Random House:
N.Y. 1995; (ii) Michael Smith (former U.K. Military Intelligence
Officer), "Killer Elite," St Martin's Press: N.Y. 2006, 2007 USA;
(iii) Niall MacKay, U. York U.K., "Lanchester combat models," arXiv:
math/0606300 v1 [math.HO] 13 Jan 2006, 8 pages; (iv) Carl von
Clausewitz, "Principles of War," The Military Service Publishing
Company: 1942; (v) Martin van Creveld, "The Culture of War,"
Ballantine: N.Y. 2008; (vi) Colonel Phillip S. Meilinger USAF, School
of Advanced Airpower Studies Maxwell Air Force Base, "Ten propositions
regarding airpower," Air and Space Power Journal/Chronicles and Air
War College 2004, IAW AFI 35-101 http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/meil.html,
(vii) Sun Tzu (Ancient China) "The Art of War."

What I will try to indicate in is thread is:

1. Strategy is best done by opening up the topic to the Public in a
format like that of sci.physics where the Public can and should be
encouraged to reply and give alternatives to ideas of "experts" -
especially inventive, creative ideas rather than imitative ideas.

2. Any Strategy of War should be compared at every step with at least
two different Strategies, namely if A represents a particular
Strategy, then at each step two alternative Strategies that should be
considered explicitly are: "Not A" and "the goal of A accomplished
with as far opposite Tactics from those of A as possible."

3. The Public should directly vote on the particular Strategy of War
in 2 above before War is engaged in unless time is of the essence -
but in that case, it should directly vote within at most 3-6 months of
the commencement of War.

For example, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Strategy of "Pouring in
hundreds of thousands or even tens of thousands of troops cumulating
to hundreds of thousands over time in order to defeat the Enemy"
should at every step be compared with the Strategy of "Not Pouring in
those troops" (which would usually be associated with not engaging in
the War) and also with the Strategy of "Defeating the Enemy by Air-
Naval Bombardment and Special Forces type Operations rather than
pouring in hundreds of thousands of troops."

4. It is also my opinion, and I will try to indicate why, that a War
by hundreds of thousands of occupying or invading troops of ordinary
type against Kakimaze-type opponents willing to commit suicide that
simultaneously destroys the Enemy to defend themselves or their nation
in large numbers will tend to bankrupt the occupying/invading nation
and lose the majority of its Public support.

Osher Doctorow