Winning The GWOT in a Paragraph

People often ask us, "What exactly would you change about the current war on terror?"

Nonetheless, they rarely have the attention span or interest level to listen and discuss the issue in detail, so here is a concise, though admittedly simplified answer for them.

"The essential problems facing the world today are highly unlikely to be resolved by conventional military operations…especially when conventional military leaders imagine themselves to be operating in an unconventional manner. International and local political capacity, robust counterinsurgency operations led by local law enforcement agencies and supported by relatively limited military action is the answer.

Free the oppressed, respond to the needs of those who support the bad guys for lack of a better choice, and destroy those who do not accept rational political discourse as an alternative to violence against society."