1. Small teams of MI and SF set up mobile operating bases in the local
communities.
2. These teams recruit and train a local defense force.
3.* a.
The camps are expanded to allow those that work for the SOF teams
families
to move into a protected haven. They are also given better food, and
access to material goods, like cable tv and the internet.
4. In camp mayoral elections are held. No parties are allowed.
5. After 6 months state-wide mayoral council is held to elect state
executives and legislature(possibly similar to county, maybe even tribal
government).
6. After 6 months state assembly meets to define and elect the federal
executive and legislature.
3.* b.
Parralell to the gorwth of the civil infrastructure, the mlitary, civil
defense, and law enforcment arms at local state and federal level are in
the process of being trained by the U.S. Military, the CIA, the FBI, and the
State Departments DSS, not to mention "security aid" from USAID.
4. Battalion sized federal army elements begin patrolling with crew served
weapon support the largest weapon allowed. No explosives other than
grenades and AT-4s. Small Iraqi national specially trained MI assets are
planted back into the community, as moles, to root out the insurgency.
5. By this point the local SF teams have built a company or more of local
irregular forces. They are based, with their families, out of the mobile
operating bases. These groups begin patrolling out of their strongholds,
and work to secure surrounding towns and villages. A tight reign is
required on these forces as they are not as highly trained as the regular
forces are.
6. A year or so in, firefights have dropped quickly. Government exists
from the local to the central level. Security is primarily done by native
Iraqi forces, with American Special Operations quick reation force(s) (QRFs)
stashed around the theater for support, advice, training and assistance.
How does that sound?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 8:28 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: A Self-Defeating War
>
>
> that is not a plan. that is a consultant's guide on project
> management. what
> would the actual plan consist of?
>
> set up goals- what goals?
> set up timetables- what timetables?
> measure progress- how?
> make tweaks- what tweaks?
>
> i just want someone, somewhere to propose an actual alternative
> to what we
> are doing now that does not sound like Monty Python and the Holy
> Grail ("Run
> away! Run away some more!")
>
> On 8/21/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > gMoney wrote:
> > > Soros' idea is to pull out now, and try to avoid future attacks by
> > > negotiating with terrorists.
> > >
> >
> > I know what I'd do:
> >
> > I'd start by putting together a Middle East policy team made up from
> > the best experts in the US, and I'd even extend that to the planet
> > except give them less access. Then I'd set reasonable goals with
> > short time scales that would be quickly achievable. Then I'd measure
> > progress and make tweaks if I wasn't succeeding. Then I'd celebrate
> > success.
> >
> > The Bush policy is to make up a bunch of shit that sounds good to
> > pollsters and then plow forward regardless of data coming in. When
> > you fail, make up emotional reasons to convince people to stick with
> > you.
> >
> > Then when things really crater say that you didn't know all of the
> > facts because you counted on underlings to do that stuff ... wait ...
> > that's ENRON. Well, same strategy I guess ...
> >
> >
>
>
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