Unconventional Warfare

Military leadership delayed fielding vehicles specifically to defend against this unconventional threat, until robert gates took over as secretary of defense in two thousand and six. New drones with new censors were also fielded to help protect american troop. The scale of these adaptations was so great because so little thought had gone into the problems they addressed before they were needed. That failure, in turn, resulted from the miopic focus, before nine 11, on the kinds of wars we wanted to fight, rather than those we were actually fighting or likely to fight.