Article: U.S. is slow to act on lessons of new warfare: Conventional methods cannot defeat enemy, experts warn.

Byline: David Wood

Aug. 13--WASHINGTON -- From the foiled London airliner bombing plot to the bloody street carnage in Baghdad and smoking wreckage of southern Lebanon came chilling reminders last week that the United States and its allies are locked in a long war with a ruthless, technically adept enemy, one the United States is ill-prepared to confront and cannot fully defeat, senior officials say. Strategists call this "unrestricted warfare" to describe the way it is fought: outside the skein of international law and Western moral standards, by enemies that are dispersed in cells and networks and so enmeshed in religious sects and culture that they are ...

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