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151 | Ret. General Dan Bolger: Why We Lost in Afghanistan and Iraq

The Realignment

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Irregular War - The Antidote to Regular War

"I want you to define arregular war for our listeners, cause that's where we gets to the nuance we're trying to get to. O we'll start with getting our terms straight. Regular verses, irregular war. Everybody knows what regular war is. It's what you play and call a duty," he says. "For most of us, regular warfare is what we think of... We got our butts kicked in every major battle by the british,. till the french showed up." The minute man, the bushwhacker, the guorilla. That's irregular war. And if you know how many eon each side killed in the war, or in the engagement

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