Seek and Destroy: The Forgotten Strategy for Countering Armed Rebellion William F. Owen - Cransfield Defence and Security The Defense Academy, UK To cite this article: Owen, William F., “Seek and Destroy: The Forgotten Strategy for Countering Armed Rebellion”, Infinity Journal , Issue No. 2, Spring 2011, pages 12-15. William F. Owen (Wilf) is the Senior Editor of Infinity Journal. William is a military technology writer and theorist currently pursuing a Masters by Research at Cranfield Defence and Security, part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. He served in both regular and reserve units of the British Army. “If the people of Georgia raise a howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity-seeking.” William Techumseh Sherman, in a letter from 1864 Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war.
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