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This is a soldier's perspective on the campaign unfolding before us. Its an unbiased and open-minded analytical view of what's happening on the ground and in the air. One wishes media reporters wrote as wisely as this former army officer free of cant and with a strict adherance to the facts at hand. Sure we have suffered in skirmishes here and there but the overall truth is we are setting the momentum and the Iraqis have the hopeless task of trying to slow us down enough that we lose our confidence and concede defeat and slink away. Dream on. If they think they haven't met the American military yet they will soon and they'll find the outcome will be quite different from what they have been promising the world and it won't even be close. Talk about the Mother Of All Wars Saddam or whoever now runs Iraq will wish he had avoided in the first place.

the Iraqis have the hopeless task of trying to slow us down enough that we lose our confidence and concede defeat and slink away.

The only possible way they could hope to do that would be to unleash an overwhelming WMD in our own land. Think a nuke in NYC with a threat of more in other major cities, or a mail-borne smallpox attack. It may not strictly be a battle against the clock, but methinks we want to ring down the curtain on this regime as fast as we can to limit the window for this kind of desperate, deadly blackmail.