BEST ENDGAME: CUT OFF, TRAP AND CONQUER

New York Post ^ | 4/04/03 | HARLAN K. ULLMAN

[kattracks]

COALITION forces stand poised around Baghdad. The question is: What happens next?

Will we attack the city? Or will we wait? And if we attack, what resistance will we meet - and what casualties will occur - when overwhelming U.S. force is brought to bear?

[goldstategop]

Dr. Ullman's right. Option no. 4 is the one that works for us. Take a little territory at a time and turn the enemy's advantage of being holed up by squeezing him into a smaller and smaller space until he either surrenders or is killed outright. Which is exactly what the British are doing now with great success in Basra and what we'll be doing shortly in Baghdad, albeit on a larger scale. It will take time and patience to get the job done but it will get done. And we'll spared the prospect of having to level Baghdad to the ground to save it and we won't have to force the city into surrender by outright starvation through a prolonged siege which could win us the war but lose us the peace afterwards. Call the next phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom a new form of Shock And Awe from The Twilight Zone.

[rvoitier]

I thought about this and my plan would be to cut off all food supplies to the determined areas and then start Bar-B-Q'ing.

That would make anyone start surrendering. :-)

[Dr.Deth]

"Best endgame ever!"

[trebb]

Mmmmmmm - Bar-B-Q