"You may hold a position of command with our special forces,
forces which are too unconventional
to be called conventional
forces which are growing in number
& importance
& significance.
For we now know that it is wholly misleading..
to say that our security rests only on the doctrine
of massive retaliation.
This is another type of war
new in its intensity
ancient in its origin —
war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins,
war by ambush, instead of by combat;
by infiltration, instead of aggression,
seeking victory by eroding & exhausting the enemy
instead of engaging him..
These are the kinds of challenges that will be before us..
If freedom is to be saved
a whole new kind of strategy,
a wholly different kind of force,
& therefore a new & wholly different kind of military training."

🦅🇺🇸 President John F. Kennedy,
West Point Commencement, June 1962

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