[narby]

As often happens at the pentagon, the "new idea" is that if you have a smaller, but deadlier force, it can travel faster with less support than a larger force. Basically the old German Lightning War on steroids.

There have been many in the Pentagon who don't like it because it means having to give up pet projects and old thinking.

Rummy has made a lot of enemies in that building. But I trust the guy.

All this grousing about "mistakes" in the occupation I think are just Democrat/Al Qaeda spin intended to replay our "defeat" in Vietnam several years after we left the battle. Only this time they want us to loose several years after the capture of Saddam. Unfortunatly the Big Lie still works just like it did for Goebels.

[woofie]

Yep

[RobbyS]

We have the "long War? crowd verses the China crowd. When Rumsfeld came in in 1991, the China crowd was in charge, just aching to get a BIG opponent like China to stand up against. Special forces is not an attractive option to a lot of these guys. They want big contracts so at the end of their tours they can segue off into the military-industrial sector and make the money they couldn't make in the military.

[Dead Dog]

I trust Rummy more than I turst Pentagone Brass. Weren't most of these guys Clintonista's?