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| 2016-04-01 |
| h/t Instapundit The intent of this essay is to advance several observations about how we plan and fight wars, in order to shed light upon why we are performing so poorly. We invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq with inchoate plans and inadequate forces to establish post-war security and governance. After winning the first battle in both countries, President George W. Bush offhandedly decided to build democratic nations, a task for which our State Department and US Agency for International Development had no competence or interest. By default, the mission fell to our military, also without competence but with unflagging devotion and determination. ...On balance, the results in Iraq or Afghanistan were not worth the costs in American casualties, money, and global influence. Several policy lessons may be drawn. When you get a, virtually, identical advice from KSA and Israel---you listen to it? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 After Vietnam was pissed away by lack of funding we should have learned to plan things out for decades when we green light a war. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-04-01 22:19 |
| #1 As Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama + aligned intended. Again, "HOW FAR IS TOO FAR", "HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH", ETC. POWER + INFLUENCE FOR EX-SOLE-SUPERPOWER-SOON-TO-ONE-OF-MANY-OWG-CO-SUPERPOWER(S) AMERIKA TO UNILATERALLY OR ASYMMETRICALLY GIVE UP IN THE NAME OF US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED OR DESTROYED IN THE PROCESS??? The "Great Game" doesn't end just because the USSR imploded + the US-World want to begin exploring + colonizing deep space. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-04-01 20:59 |