special operations not conventional warfare

["Kevin Noble" <knoble () terremark com>]

The problem with the information warfare books are principally about
conventional warfare.  As I think a few folks have pointed out, you need
to add to your library a different kind of book.  An information warfare
book above and beyond the usual that looks to blow the asymmetric attack
out of the water, check out "Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special
Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice" by William McRaven.  

McRaven deduced six principles for special operations, which lead to
relative superiority (how a small force gains short term supremacy over
a larger force). The defined principals of special operations are
simplicity, security, repetition, surprise, speed, and purpose. 

"A simple plan, carefully concealed, repeatedly and realistically
rehearsed, and executed with surprise, speed, and purpose" provides
special operators with the highest probability of succeeding.  The
examples in the book are detailed and amazing.

Dividing special operations into three phases serves to clarify the six
principles - planning (simple), preparation (security and repetition),
and execution (surprise, speed, and purpose).

If you can't draw the parallels to general security practices from those
principals then the book is not for you, otherwise you might find
yourself ripping through the book and thinking in an entirely different
light by the final chapter.

http://www.amazon.com/Spec-Ops-Studies-Operations-Practice/dp/0891416005

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