The other day, after another a big jihad kill on the Cote d’Azur, the French Prime Minister lit a virtual firestorm by claiming that France will have to learn to “live with terrorism.”  Indeed, Manuel Walls, like Coco Channel in 1941, even invoked sang froid, the oil of aplomb, to calm the troubled watering holes of Nice. Difficult as it is to defend Mister Wall’s appeasement, if not collaboration, what he said is not much different than the “long war” babble that has characterized the American military de bate for decades now. In short, a “long war” today is any conflict with an unnamed enemy; an ideology unexamined, a conflict not declared, an objective not defined, a cost and body count open-ended, and a duration never to be stipulated. One prescient flag officer characterized the last three decades of American strategic thinking about Muslim small wars as “a howling waste.” The strategic void is not...(Read Full Article)