RANT: The baseline for any intervention into Iraq, with no guarantee of success

http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/christie_iraq_vietnam.htm

http://tinyurl.com/yldxc9

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Throughout the 1990’s various commanding generals of U.S. Central Command ran a number of war games and determined that 400,000 troops were the baseline for any intervention into Iraq, with no guarantee of success. How this was to be accomplished by ground forces that had shrunk from 18 Army and 3 Marine divisions in 1991 to 10 Army and not quite 2 Marine divisions in 2003 was the crucial question.

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Amazing, if this is correct, then “we” figured out the right number, but “we” did something else! Wow, how stupid!

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