Re: [OT] Vietnam and modern combat

Actually this is so OT that I must ask you move it off line.

Glenn

On Sat, 1 May 2004 22:23:45 +0200 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de
(K.H.Ranitzsch) writes:
>> Further you were working for a prez that had no
>> respect for the military (oddly enough. . . ) and
>> overruled/ignored/never asked for advice from his
>> senior military leadership.	Unclear mission with
>> impossible political constraints.  This does not
>> normally happen.
>>
>> This is certaintly not the case today.
>
>Hmm...
>Certainly Bush likes to talk the talk...
>Didn't Bush's Administration ignore General Shinseki's warning about 
>the
>number of troops needed to occupy Iraq ?
>Weren't a lot of warnings and planning suggestions by military, 
>intelligence
>and foreign policy experts ignored ?
>Haven't they tried to get away with doing the operations on the cheap, 
>with
>not enough of lots of stuff from spare parts to armoured  Humvees ? 
>While
>there is still lots of money for such absurd projects as "Star Wars" 
>Missile
>defence ? And for Civilian contractors in Iraq messing up anything 
>from
>logistics to security ?
>
>And can anybody give a plausible reason why a former Saddam general 
>has been
>intalled as commander of the "Fallujah Brigade", which contains at 
>least
>some of the insurgents, apparently with consent from pretty high up ?
>http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/01/wirq01
.xml
>
>
>Greetings
>Karl Heinz
>
>

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