“His implementation of the surge strategy in Iraq, a counterinsurgency doctrine he literally authored, was one of the greatest military triumphs in U.S. history and constituted one of the most dramatic turnarounds in the history of warfare. That is not an overstatement.”
Sounds like a fitness report. It is factually inaccurate, just like the average fitness report.
http://www.usafa.edu/isme/ISME09/Coleman09.html
The “Surge” was nothing new as far as guerrilla fighting.
The Romans used similar tactics 2000+ years ago. Maybe you consider 2,000 years old as new?
The most dramatic turnaround in the history of warfare? PLEEEEASE! Don’t know much military history, do you?
Guerrilla or insurgency warfare is the second oldest form of war known to man. It started the night after the first army invaded their neighbor. A farmer caught a invader asleep, knocked him over the head and made off with his spear and shield.
This prolly happened a few minutes by helicopter from the Green Zone in space. Thousands of years in time. Read your Herodotus. In the Bronze Age insurgencies were the norm. Insurgency declined in the age of rifles because farmers with pointed sticks didn’t do so good against muskets and cannons. And this was before the concept of ‘innocent bystander’ was invented. Pillage, rapine and looting were considered the benefits of a military career. Sort of a 15th century retirement plan.
From what “Bush the wuss” would call a “strategery” viewpoint, Iraq was a failure. The Modified inkblot strategy Gen.Petraeus used requires generations to work.
It would take at least one generation of Iraq’s living and working with American to make even the slightest difference. All we have done in Iraq is shown the Muslims that we can kick their arse. That is nothing new, EVERYBODY kicks their arse. It means nothing, except the Muslims have to try a different angle in their eternal war against the non-Muslim world.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/11/19/011119fa_FACT2?currentPage=all
In the end, this will be either an all Muslim planet or there will be no Muslims on this planet. The Chinese will exterminate them. The west is toast, unless we find the will to commit genocide on the Muslims. The west is toast if Islam finds the means to perform genocide on us.
There cannot be any compromise with religious fanatics. That is what makes them fanatics.
In Iraq, the insurgants have been laying low, waiting for the US to leave. Now that the Usurper has given them a date certain, they can make their plans.
That means when the fecal matter hits the rotary air impeller, the Usurper and his cohorts will need a scapegoat.
It looks like Petraeus is that guy. Now when Hezza-bo-allah nukes new york, the administration can blame Petraeus and say, “The expert told us it was OK and he was wrong so why blame us?”
There has been at least 1 solo terrorist attack since the Usurper was sworn in. I think that was a trial run, with waves of single gunmen trained in Al Qeada camps coming in the near future. The Usurper will use those attacks to sic his lap dogs in the MSM on the 2nd amendment. The Chicago cabal doesn’t fear terrorists. They do fear free, armed, Americans.
