There ya go, Annoy Mouse. Woodward’s “secret program” is not one superweapon, it is a network of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) platforms, and data base analysis techniques borrowed from law enforcement and enhanced for counterinsurgency. Patterns of bad guy activity and networks become visible, our door-kickers hit a node, exploit what they find within hours and go hit other nodes, every night, for weeks, forcing the bad guys to do things they’d rather not, exposing even more nodes, gathering more data for the data base, more laptops for exploitation.

All this relentless door-kicking is tough on the door-kickers. We needed more of them. Thus The Surge.