No, Sawz... Just the things I know about... As fir "The Surge" I would doubt that if you were to ask a 100 people what the tactical components of it were that you'd find 5 who had any idea other than the PR on it which was merely "more boots on the ground"... That was a very simplistic answer then and it's no less a simplistic asnwer now...

Yeah, strings... Ike warned US about what we now have... He warned US that the military/industrial complex, if left unchecked, would damage our country and it's future... Now we're in the midst of it and guess what??? The very people who are pissed off about their taxes being too high are the ones who are always up for a new, shiney war??? Go figure???

B~