Interesting stuff. Two things will make any sustained counterinsurgency effort by the US very difficult. One is public opinion, increasing public and political concern about "what we have gotten ourselves into" and growing discontent about staying in it as more and more soldiers are sent home in bodybags. The other is sustainability. Prospects for the US economy are not good. Money is needed at home to patch up deteriorating infrastructure and growing unemployment. There is also a third factor: growing cynicism as the Haliburons, Bechtels and Worldcoms are seen to be principal beneficiaries.[snip]
Ed Weick
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THE STRATFOR WEEKLY: 7 July 2003 by Dr. George Friedman U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategies in Iraq
*In other words*, the Iraqi forces understood that they could not
defeat the United States in conventional war. Instead, the Iraqi war
plan consisted of declining conventional engagement and subsequently
engaging U.S. forces in operations in which their advantages were
minimized and their weaknesses were exposed.
In other words: UNTHINKABLE!
Why don't they stand up like men and let us mow them down with our asymmetrically more powerful weapons!
I guess this is what we pay the people in the Think Tanks to think about.
"Remember Pearl Harbor!"
"O say can you seee, by the dawn's early light..."
(sung with hand over heart, Bush style,
and not associating "dawn's early light"
with 09Dec41 @ "Pearl"!)\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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