As the War in Iraq continues to rage, many in the White House,
State Department, Department of Defense, and outside government are
left to wonder if it was possible to foresee the difficulty the
United States is currently having with Sunni nationalists and
Islamic extremists. Recent American military experience offers
significant insight into this question. With the fog of the Cold
War finally lifting and clarity returning to the nature of
conflict, the dominance of asymmetry in the military experience of
the United States is all too evident. Lebanon (1982-1984), Somalia
(1992-1994), and Afghanistan (2001-2004) offer recent and relevant
insight into successes and failures of American attempts to fight
adversaries utilizing asymmetric conflict to combat the United
States when it intervened in these three states. The results
illustrate the difficulty of engaging adversaries unwilling to wage
a conventional war and the need for improved strategic and tactical
doctrine. "It is easy," Lowther writes, "for Americans to forget
the lessons of past conflicts as the politics of the present
dominate...." His purpose here is to highlight some of history's
recent lessons so that we may move forward with an awareness of
what experience offers.
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