I‘ll bite.

In recent history one would be hard-pressed to apply the concept of strategic time to American military operations, specifically in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In these cases planners were faced with time as an overwhelmingly negative factor. Unit deployment schedules and rotations as well as domestic/foreign election cycles were looming time-hacks working against military planning and execution.

Furthermore, the counter-insurgency campaigns were zero-sum games against insurgent groups. As time grew without tangible, positive results in the form of security and good governance, it became increasingly difficult for the American military to achieve significant successes at all.

As always I may just still be jaded from Afghanistan, but it would appear that adopting the art of employing ‘strategic time’ and waiting for the enemy to embark upon a path towards a fatal misstep is just not feasible in modern unconventional warfare.

Would love to hear other thoughts on this, however, dissenting or not.