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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...q_insurgency_2
Interesting article on Yahoo about the size of the insurrection and how its being fought. If this is accurate, then I'm about ready for Americans to leave too. If its just nationalism, then it sounds sorta like what I'd hope a lot of Americans would do if the roles were reversed. Well, and if the Iraqis were dragging their feet on allowing us to have elections etc....
Regarding how to fight an insurgency, please note the penultimate paragraph. You heard that thinking here first. 9 months ago. You wanna track people? Make em carry id cards and build giant databases.
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Good article. The bit about the part-time insurgents reminded me of back when the PB was focused on the unemployment rate for a while. When do the analysts count a fighter as discouraged and thus out of the insurgent workforce?
Initially when I read your I-told-you-so at the end there I thought you were posting
this article I read today about Fallujah. Apparently the Iraqi security force we gave control to hasn't done much of a job breaking up the terorrist networks there so now it's a safe haven for the insurgents, including the dread pirate Zarqawi. Sounds like the coalition wishes it had more offensive options besides waiting for the formation of an Iraqi force of sufficient size and training to clean house in there. It'll be interesting to see if the military commanders try to go back on the deal, and how loudly the govt would yelp if they do. The crap about our troops not being able to return fire is pretty astonishing.
