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June 10, 2005
Iraqi War: Stage 2 Insurgency
I for one seek alternative views on US/UK military operations in Iraq. I have found this one to be especially accurate.
The_War_Nerd:
"Now comes stage two of the insurgency: the flag-waving fools are gone, and it's the survivors in control -- guerrilla evolution, survival of the practical guys who want to win instead of dying gloriously. You see the same pattern with insurgencies in Algeria, Chechnya, Colombia: the martyrs get killed off, and the cold-blooded guerrilla operatives take over."
Tell it brother!
They learn and adapt. Rumsfeld and that NBA-tall Air Force factotum that follows him around and looms over his dinky ass at PR events and such, have no clue at all. Those two idiots still think they can win this thing.
The US Army a few years from now will prolly have to do a Dunkirk style fighting withdrawal or be stuck in a series of Stalingrad/Alamo type encirclements and sieges which as military history has shown, usually leads to a Dein Bein Phu mass surrender or physical force destruction (i.e.-an Alamo type wipe-out). This is what military history shows us usually happens. Never mind what Victor Davis Hanson and the rest of the neo-Con or National Review published military historians say.
" Armies in peacetime", War_Nerd goes on to say, "never learn anything. They're the slowest, dumbest organisms since the Stegosaurus. Or maybe even the Democratic Party. Whereas armies in combat learn incredibly fast."
Yes they do. They either get good fast or die fast.
Posted by Ali Massoud at June 10, 2005 12:19 PM
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