Yoshie -- Good question. But, what I suspect may be happening is that the US will attempt to stimulate infighting among the "insurgency," thereby having them partially neutralize each other, reducing our force requirements. It's savage and the attendant destruction from civil war horrendous, but it looks to me as a strategy that might be favored by military planners.
Peter Hollings -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PEN-L] How Many Troops Would It Take to Defeat the 200,000-strong Guerrilla Insurgency? "How Many Troops Would It Take to Defeat the 200,000-strong Guerrilla Insurgency?" (based on the record of British Malaya, it would take 4 million US troops more than a decade to put down the 200,000-strong guerrilla force in Iraq, if [a big if] Washington can successfully alienate the Shiite majority from the Sunnis by the lure of an electoral path to power and actually grants them independence): <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/01/how-many-troops-would-it-take-to.h tml>. -- Yoshie * Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/> * "Proud of Britain": <http://www.proudofbritain.net/ > and <http://www.proud-of-britain.org.uk/>
