[lbo-talk] 4th Generation Warfare In Iraq: Fighting In God's Time

[Dwayne Monroe]

[I have a few military geek buds - some are vets. 
Almost all of them, regardless of political posture,
see the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq as stupid,
slopiily executed  maneuvers that will end with the US
leaving, as former UN weapons inspector and US Marine
Scott Ritter once said, "with it's tail between its
legs." More military strategist types are reaching the
same conclusion.  Important to remember that it's spit
and polish patriots who are saying these things, not
lefty doomsayers.]

Fourth Generation Warfare in Iraq
Of Time and the Rivers

By WILLIAM S. LIND

<snip>

...having found that M-1 tanks make poor police patrol
cars, we are proposing to put a lot more American
troops on Baghdad streets, in Humvees and on foot.
Welcome to my parlor, say the Baathist and Shiite
spiders to the fly. One RPG round will incinerate any
Humvee, and foot patrols will be even easier game.
When that happens, we will be back in the tanks, and
someone else will control the streets. We could have
used Iraq's own army for that purpose, but instead we
have sent it home, without pay, providing a vast
reservoir of fighters for our enemies. America's
"plan" for occupying Iraq seems to have been to
identify every possible mistake, then make it.

<snip>

more at
http://counterpunch.org/lind06032003.html

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