Some changes to the war in Iraq.

First, a New Yorker article on Knowing the Enemy.

Second, commentary by a military man: A Strategy for the Long War.

Here's a quote:

...it was the best thing I've read on the kinds of changes we need to bring to the war. It is that, but let me say why I think so, and elaborate on some of the good concepts at work in the article.
There are three concepts to understand. The first is "information warfare." The second is David Kilcullen's concept of "Disaggregation," which the article asserts may be the grand strategy we need for the Long War, the equivalent of Containment in the Cold War. The third is consequences: the need for sticks as well as carrots.

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