Rumsfeld Donald H. Transforming the military // Foreign Affairs. May/June 2002. P. 21.

Rumsfeld Donald H. Testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, 9 July 2003.

Керстин Хоканссон доказала этот пункт, сравнив тактики во Вьетнаме и Афганистане. См.: New wars, old warfare? Comparing US tactics in Afghanistan and Vietnam //Jan Angstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn (eds). The Nature of Modern War: Clausewitz and his Critics Revisited. Stockholm: Swedish National Defence College, Department of War Studies, 2003.