The New Face of War from Antiwar.com Original by Conn Hallinan

The New Face of War

from Antiwar.com Original by Conn Hallinan

The assassination of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden did more than knock off U.S. Public Enemy Number One. It formalized a new kind of warfare, where sovereignty is irrelevant, armies tangential, and decisions are secret. It is, in the words of counterinsurgency expert John Nagl, “an astounding change in the nature of warfare.”