Scales and Ollivant: Terrorist armies fight smarter and deadlier than ever

Military transformations can be hard to detect. They generally occur over decades, sometimes over generations. Soldiers are usually the first torecognize them, but for the perceptive, the signs of a sea change developing on today’s battlefields are there. Look carefully at media images of ground fighting across the Middle East, and you will notice that the bad … Continue reading Scales and Ollivant: Terrorist armies fight smarter and deadlier than ever