Posted on 07/18/2004 5:30:33 AM PDT by Max Combined
How long do you take to do this planning for all possible contingencies? You can never finish planning if you have to consider all possible contingencies. How much planning should we have done for the possibility that an asteroid might impact Basra before its capture, during the battle for Basra or after its capture?
You only plan for likely events. How do you determine what events are likely? You make assessments based on the intelligence available. Unfortunately, we had faulty intelligence. It has happened countless times throughout history that military decision were made on faulty intelligence, and it will continue to happen as long as men fight each other.
"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions."
General Omar Bradley
Who even heard the word "insurgency", let alone expected one, before the press began using and overusing that LAME word a couple of months ago?
*L* Oops, you beat me to it.
No, I believe the looters were a diversion from the Oil for Food evidence that was being guarded by our troops.
Seems the very little that was stolen from the museums, et al came about when we found their stash.
The other looting was furniture and other crap or reallocating of resources.
Welcome to Free Republic. I haven't seen you, or several other new posters on this thread, around here before. I enjoy reading new material from new posters.
A truly great general--so right!
vaudine
The media and the Democrats were comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam before we even went in there.
I no longer view such thoughts or expressions from these sources as anything other then something the Brothers Grimm would write.
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