Suddenly everyone's an "expert" on geurilla warfare in a gigantic Middle Eastern country full of terrorists willing to kill themselves, their children, and families.
Oh, yes, and no CIC ever made mistakes in a War. Bush is the first. EEEEvvvil Bush.
In this case, Lt. Col. Ralph Peters probably comes closer to it than most people on this forum. Being a career Army intelligence officer and military scholar. He's been publish many, many times in the US Army War College's publicans "Parameters". Here's a review of one of his books, Fighting for the Future", from that publication.
One thing y'all might have in common with him is distaste for the French:
France should be made to suffer, strategically and financially. The French stabbed us in the back. In response, we should skin them alive.
If today’s America is the new Rome, France is a garbage-dump Carthage. And Carthage needs to be broken.... And we should pursue every possible avenue to reduce American purchase of any goods produced by the French. Perfidy must be punished. The French, who would be eating sauerkraut for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if we hadn’t liberated them, need to have their treachery shoved down their throats.
Here's some of his books, mostly non fiction, but some good military fiction as well.