On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 04:21 am, J.D. Giorgis wrote:
If this is true... this is highly embarassing.
JDG
Analysts Say Threat Warnings Toned Down Guerrilla Tactics Were Predicted
There seem to be quite a lot of stories suggesting a change in plans in the execution of the war.
"US marines get advice from the British on urban war"
http://www.news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/31/ wirq31.xml
""We've already changed our tactics midstream," said Lt-Col John Miranda, a member of Task Force Tarawa, the marine unit trying to control the southern town of Nasiriyah.
Col Miranda said the marines were taking advice from the British on how to go about their task. "We've exchanged ideas with them already," he said. "They've actually sent some of their experts over."
General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the British experience learned during three decades of urban warfare in Northern Ireland would also be put to use in the coming battle to take the Iraqi capital Baghdad."
And "Battle for streets of Basra"
http://www.news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/31/ war31.xml
"Hundreds of commandos from the Royal Marines launched the battle for Basra yesterday in a ferocious 15-hour assault on fortified Iraqi positions in a south-eastern suburb.
The engagement, which included a series of street battles, marked the first attempt to take control of part of the strategic city from Saddam Hussein's forces and ignite an uprising by its large anti-Saddam majority."
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