USC, Fort Jackson host talks on modern warfare

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina is hosting a three-day conference on war and the role guerrilla warfare plays in modern combat.

U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Gen. David Blackledge delivers Thursday’s keynote address on the U.S. military and the future of counterinsurgency operations at the Regional Support Command Headquarters at Fort Jackson. Blackledge is the commanding general of the Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C. His address is free and open to the public.

Walter Edgar, the director of the university’s Institute for Southern Studies, says South Carolina’s role in guerrilla warfare during the American Revolution, the Civil War and Reconstruction, will be discussed.

The sessions were to include talks on counterinsurgency operations in China, France, Spain and Algeria.