18.10.2011 - 14:16 [ Reuters ]

Analysis: The rise and rise of western covert ops

„We may find ourselves fighting more wars with fewer people,“ says John Nagl, a former U.S. Army officer who wrote its counterinsurgency manual and now heads the Center for New American Security, a think tank. „That raises some interesting questions — like whether we have the right to do that. There is much less public debate. Society doesn‘t pay the cost and so doesn‘t ask the questions.“