Last War, This War, Next War
All being debated over at Small Wars. Some light reading there and elsewhere on that which only the dead have seen the end of:
Which Ghosts Should We Be Trying to Bury?
Force Structure for Small Wars
Children of the Left (Handwringing by retired Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Lambert. I think I’m with commenter Schmedlap on that one. Our long-term analysis and exit planning should be heavily focused on non-abandonment, cultivation of our allies in Iraq and diminishment of the domestic and foreign threats there. Comparisons of Pinochet and the Argentinian junta to U.S. and Iraqi forces in Iraq are way off by every measure. Not only is the Iraqi terrorism/insurgency and counterinsurgency experience entirely different from the South American one; the Sunni and now Shia awakening movements, al-Maliki’s recent aha moments and the involvement of Iran suggest entirely different paths forward.)
Speaking of Children of the Left re South America, how about this one? Gateway: Uribe acts in good faith. Unfortunately he’s dealing with Nancy Pelosi.
Gateway also highlights JPost’s Caroline Glick, her new book, her blog, underscoring a few other things that are different about this war and those other ones.
Related, SWJ posts Wasington Post’s “Next Crop of Generals Forged By Counterinsurgency.” Abu Muqawama comments, “McMaster promoted, finally … ”
Op-For, Buying for the Big War or the Small One?
Op-For also as a vid tease to JD Johannes’ Outside the Wire and interview link.
Speaking of this war, Abu Muqawama: What Truce? the War over the Wall.
Dollard with another Sadr City truce take.
Ed at Hotair on al-Maliki’s show of statesmanship.
Jimbo at Blackfive, How to Exploit Success in Iraq … enough with the weakkneed appeasementologists already!
Ardolino’s photo tour, From Rusafa to Sadr City.
Last, not least, Austin Bay with real-world programs for encouraging peace. Or if you like, war by other means: Addressing housing needs and economic development in Iraq and elsewhere.
Topics: Iraq, history, vietnam
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:19 am on Thursday, May 15, 2008
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