Kevin Benson
Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat. At present, the American people are observing allegedly successful tactics in the monitoring and destruction of alleged drug running boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. The Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard are intercepting oil tankers of the so-called Russian “Shadow Fleet” while conducting a selective blockade of Venezuela. We also witnessed a remarkably successful operation to track and capture Nicolas Maduro. We are unsure if the purpose of these operations – discrete strikes against fleeting target – is the protection of the American people from the scourge of illegal narcotics or, as others opine, the removal of Maduro from the regime in Venezuela and access to Venezuelan oil. There are a series of questions we should be asking our government leaders, our military leaders, and our diplomats as we consider this situation.
The answers to these questions will serve as a starting point for the continuous analysis that must accompany the execution of such operations. We all know the truth of the adage: no plan can look with certainty beyond initial contact with the enemy main body. We must figure out; what is the problem we are (or this plan is) trying to solve? We must determine if it is the correct problem. We must determine that if we do this, what are we choosing not to do?
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