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Thread #59121   Message #939900
Posted By: GUEST,Claymore
25-Apr-03 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: The War
Subject: RE: BS: The War
Actually the Washington Post had a pretty good recap in their Sunday issue (that is if you really want the first brush of history). As we all know, there will be many updates through the next couple of years, as various agencies and commands conduct their "lessons learned" studies, and then the news media seek to validate them.

Contrary to what the liberals think, the US military is actually real thorough in these assessments, though many are not made public less for the conspriatorial reasons, than for not exposing weaknesses while "work-arounds" are being done. In addition, if a potential enemy thinks it has found a weakness, which we have already corrected, when the action starts and they operate under those assumptions, we catch them flat-footed. Thats why those Russian Generals who helped the Iragis set up their typical Slavic "defense in depth" are being laughed at today.

You'll also notice it's the reason that the North Koreans are screaming to come to the table... They have suddenly realized that the 11,000 artillery pieces they have massed north of Seoul are what the Americans now call a "target-rich environment"...