William F Owen is British and was born in Singapore in 1963. There is nothing novel, new or even complex, in this approach.

In both cases each irregular force was able to generate conventional military force from fairly meager resources. The most famous are the Boer defeats of the British Army during 'Black Week' in December 1899 and the Hussite Wars of the 15th Century, where irregular forces, using improvised barricades made of ox wagons (wagenburgs) were able to stand against and defeat the armoured knights of the Holy Roman Empire. Thus the object of the article is to show just how simply a peer or near-peer capability can be acquired, and maintained.Ĭontrary to popular belief, there are many examples of where military action by irregular forces has inflicted battlefield defeats on regular forces. It is further suggested that skillfully applied this type of capability may enable its user to confront and possibly defeat NATO type expeditionary forces.Ī number of popular opinions about the future nature of warfare have created a substantially misleading impression that the skills and equipment required for formation level combined arms capability, such as that possessed by NATO during the cold war is no longer needed, because few potential enemies possess similar peer capability. These elements are enduring and appeared in the first twenty years of the twentieth century. The subject of this article is a broad technical and operational examination of how almost any country on earth can currently gain a viable level of military power by building on the enduring elements of combined arms warfare. Examining a Lost Cost Military Capabilityĭownload the full article: The Toyota Horde

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