How NOT to fight a war ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3613473.stm
I think the events so far after the inasion of Iraq show the US officials didn't even put enough thought into the whole process. Did they just think, "Oh, let's invade Iraq now. We'll deal about problems later when they surface." If they didn't expect this kind of a lawlessness, they are unfit to even fight a war.
And what could be the reason for such dissent and opposition to the coalition?
One prime reason seems to be the widespread hatred towards the US.
Secondly even after Saddam was defeated, the infrastructure seems to be improving at a very slow pace. I think lack of planning in the post-war activities is squarely to be blamed for this. Probably the US expected the people of Iraq to understand, digest and implement a completely different form of rule overnight?
Thirdly now that Saddam is gone, several parties and people are staking a claim to the power. How many really are worthy to assume power? How many really want to bring Iraq back on the track of economic development? There's no way of verifying this, except to have a trial and error method. And once a government is elected in Iraq, it might just be a dictatorship under the guise of democracy. Then it might be worse than Saddam's rule.
Fourthly, as the article above suggests, the US is probably acting like a trigger-happy cowboy, eager for action and short on patience. Again because there was no planning or no thought put into any eventuality like this, and more likely the local commanders don't know what's the best course of action to take, and their mentors in the US thought this would never happen?
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Re: How NOT to fight a war ...
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Originally posted by honeybee
I think the events so far after the inasion of Iraq show the US officials didn't even put enough thought into the whole process. Did they just think, "Oh, let's invade Iraq now. We'll deal about problems later when they surface." If they didn't expect this kind of a lawlessness, they are unfit to even fight a war.
Unfit to fight a war? Using a minute percentage of our available troops the US has completly overrun two countries in less than 3 years. Less than 6 months if you count actual major battle time. Keep in mind that the US casualty rate is unbelieveably low and the Civillian Casualty rate is even more astonishingly lower. So what, a couple thousand Iraqi militia are left. Considering the Kill ratio from US to Iraqi is somewhere around 100 to 1 in this entire conflict. They have said all along that they expected this kind of lawlessness. this sort of lawlessness exists after every war ever fought. Pull you head out of your ass man. If you are looking for something American to insult you'll have to do better than insulting the most powerfull military force on the planet. There are many other things about the US that deserve Criticism but the US military is definatly not one of them. The Marines and the Airborn Infantry are kicking the crap out of what's left of the Iraqi military. A few arseholes wearing dynamite packed underpants and RPG's arent going to stop them. Hell, Indias POS military could clean up the stragglers left over in Iraq.
Re: How NOT to fight a war ...
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Originally posted by honeybee
...they are unfit to even fight a war.
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One word. Kashmir
Let us discuss How to win a war...
(course, I won't be back on this thread, I just thought it was funny)