US war on terror strategy has been 'blown off course'

摘要

The US strategy for fighting the global war on terror is off-course and in danger of failing, according to a number of current and former senior US military officials. "Everyone knows our strategy is broken", one former senior officer said, noting that Washington has been far too focused on capturing or killing individual terrorist suspects rather than offering a convincing alternative to the logic and ideology of violent extreme Islam and used to recruit new fighters. "The centre of gravity of this war is ideology, not massed armies," he said.