{"id":16251,"date":"2016-06-14T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16251"},"modified":"2016-06-14T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T00:00:27","slug":"crusader-corner-general-mcchrystal-gives-4-tips-on-how-to-fight-and-win-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/14\/crusader-corner-general-mcchrystal-gives-4-tips-on-how-to-fight-and-win-against-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader Corner: General McChrystal Gives 4 Tips On How to Fight and Win Against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

You would know that some of the best, most practical advice about fighting and WINNING against ISIS comes from one of the only Generals to be fired for criticizing the Obama White House. Personally, I like McChrystal. What he accomplished with JSOC was extraordinary. The man got results. My only complaint with him is how he handled the Pat Tillman incident; Could have been done much better.-SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"MCC\"<\/p>\n

At a time when our political leaders freely admit that\u00a0they don\u2019t have a plan<\/a> to deal with ISIS, or try to tell the nation that we\u2019re somehow \u201cnot at war<\/a>\u201d with a de facto state that our President claims<\/a> we\u2019re nonetheless going to destroy, it\u2019s deeply refreshing to hear from someone who not only understands how to defeat rabid Islamist murderers, but has actually done it.<\/p>\n

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In a recent interview with CNN<\/a>, General Stanley McChrystal, who formerly commanded both the Ranger Regiment and the brutally effective Joint Special Operations Command, outlined several key points that I hope our political and military leaders paid attention to.\u00a0 If they\u2019re serious about getting after ISIS, they should have McChrystal\u2019s number on speed dial.<\/p>\n

I personally served under McChrystal\u2019s command many times in both Iraq and Afghanistan and have seen the results of the kind of actions he advocates. \u00a0Although I have\u2019t worked for him in years, in my mind he still possesses the ultimate credentials:\u00a0 his method of fighting terrorists works.<\/p>\n

Below are four excerpts from McChrystal\u2019s interview, to which I\u2019ve added some personal commentary.<\/p>\n

If you really want to understand what it takes to defeat terrorists, you don\u2019t listen to the feckless empty suits who would rather launch hashtag campaigns<\/a> than black helicopters\u2014you listen to real warriors like Stanley McChrystal.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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1) \u00a0\u201cThe effectiveness of a group is not its numbers, it\u2019s how effectively it\u2019s connected.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThis was certainly true of JSOC, whose relatively small size belied the organization\u2019s enormous impact on the battlefield in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other locations around the world.\u00a0 McChrystal correctly recognized that small groups of specially selected, highly trained, and well-supported operators, backed by superb intelligence, could be entrusted to do what needs to be done in a complex, protracted, and often bloody conflict.\u00a0 JSOC wasn\u2019t a large organization when McChrystal took over as commander, but because he was effective where others weren\u2019t, he kept getting more and more resources and achieving better and better results.<\/p>\n

A key aspect of the success of McChyrstal\u2019s plan was his emphasis on building a network to defeat a network<\/a>. \u00a0Unlike many others in the Special Operations community, McChrystal was willing to reach out to other units, other services, other agencies, and even other countries to put a team together that used precision intelligence to drive operational and tactical decisions that resulted in operations at a pace faster than the enemy could withstand. \u00a0Units under McChrystal\u2019s command would crack open enemy networks and exploit them up and down the chain until those organizations were utterly exhausted and completely neutralized. \u00a0Then they would move on to the next one. \u00a0This is the kind of mindset, commitment, and persistence that it will take to defeat ISIS.<\/p>\n

What was true of JSOC then is true of ISIS now. \u00a0ISIS is very well connected\u2026 at least, it\u2019s better connected than the governments and other groups it is fighting. \u00a0No group is better than JSOC at breaking up that connective tissue that allows terrorist groups to function. \u00a0Getting after the way the group functions, rather than obsessing over how big it is or whether it is \u201cJV or varsity,\u201d will give real results. \u00a0What kind of results? \u00a0 You can hear it\u00a0for yourself from no less than the Presidential level: “Listen: JSOC Is Awesome!”<\/p>\n

Read the Remainder at Havok Journal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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You would know that some of the best, most practical advice about fighting and WINNING against ISIS comes from one of the only Generals to be fired for criticizing the Obama White House. Personally, I like McChrystal. What he accomplished with JSOC was extraordinary. The man got results. My only complaint with him is how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,1583,1704,5072,2574,74,2417,2413,2726,2990,272],"tags":[12248,2789,12249,12250,12251],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}