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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Terminate with extreme kinesis

[T]he general has gained a reputation as an outspoken advocate of what was known in Vietnam as the "hearts and minds" approach to fighting the war. Like other terms that hark back to Vietnam, that has fallen out of favor among American commanders here. They prefer to talk about "kinetic" and "non-kinetic" forms of defeating the insurgency.

In this context, "kinetic" refers to the kill-and-capture warfare that has been the Marines' traditional way of battle, and "non-kinetic" to the efforts that Generals Chiarelli and Casey have stressed — to reach out to local leaders, help build civic institutions, rebuild infrastructure and provide jobs, undermining the insurgency's appeal. - New York Times, June 4, 2006
These terms must just be a joke among the rank and file. How is anyone supposed to take this kind of Newspeak seriously?


posted at 12:13 PM

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