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MSNBC: Iraq smarter than US, all is lost
They are outgunned, outclassed and have almost no air defenses, yet the Iraqi armed forces continue to fight the world’s most powerful military force. Although the tide of battle has always been on the side of the coalition, the Iraqis have not been defeated in an often-cited “cakewalk.” Indeed, they have had some battlefield successes.
Ummm... No battlefield successes I can think of. Holding out in Basra, Nasiriyah, and Najaf, but not on the battlefield....
THE IRAQI armed forces, severely battered during the first Gulf War, were able to reform themselves fairly quickly into an effective fighting force. This was due to the fact that most of the destruction of the Iraqi military at the hands of the 1991 coalition was focused on regular army units rather than Saddam Hussein’s better equipped and trained Republican Guard...
This "think piece" stinks, and must have been written 6 weeks ago...
More important than the reorganization of the Iraqi armed forces and the development of new missile systems following the 1991 war was the adoption of new tactics aimed at American ground forces, including their supply lines, judged to be the most vulnerable piece of the American war machine...
Yup, brung the 3ID to its knees... and the genius concludes
"Now, lookee here, Mahmoud. Here's the plan: we're gonna fall apart and let these here Merkins outrun their supply lines. Then you and the boyz, you sneaks up on 'em from behind and explode!"
"Duh! Hokay, boss!"
... As American forces poured across the border from Kuwait, Iraqi forces did not try to take on American armored units in the field. Instead, they melted back into the cities, having learned the lessons of 1991 perhaps better than the Americans did.
Dunno about you, but I'm surrendering to the next T-72 I see in San Diego.
Posted by: Mark IV 2003-04-02
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