TY - BOOK AU - VAN RIPPER Paul K TI - EBO: there was no baby in the bathwater PY - 2009/// KW - EFFECTS BASED OPERATIONS N2 - This article supports the decision by the commander US Joint Chiefs of Staff Command to ban the idea of effects based operations. Suggests that EBO has been an example of a fifteen year decline in US military conceptual thinking and as such its demise should be welcomed ER -