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- 1. Toward a Unified Field Theory of Violent, Non-State Groups A presentation by Dr. Steven Metz U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute January 2008
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- Want to commend conference organizers Long believed that if we want to understand modern insurgency, need to look beyond insurgency theory I love David Galula as much as the next guy, but so much has changed in both insurgency itself and the broader security environment that we must take him and other "classic" theorists with a grain of salt There are many other bodies of knowledge that can be mined for insights Criminal gangs may be most important This leads me to a central theme of comments: as US deals with enemies, we tend to derive general theories or models from our most recent experience Have done that with Iraq for decades In terms of non-state opponents, long did it with Maoist People's War, today with the AQ network Built general theories, models, concepts, strategies and doctrine from these context specific cases That's a problem Leaves us ill prepared to deal with threats that deviate from them Yet are doing it again today So what I'd like to suggest today is a different way of thinking--the tentative beginning of a unified field theory of violent non state groups Hence my admittedly peculiar title