The Army has had decades long, institutional failure to think, plan, equip and train for failed state/no state ...”interventions.”
Long before Rumsfeld. Somolia and Mogadishu should of been an intituional wake up. Heck even the HW Bush ‘Rise Up Kurds’ should of meant something.
The failure lays with the Army General Staff corps.
My apologies, I had no idea that I was in the presence of a real expert. No such thing as the Army General Staff Corps. But, even self proclaimed “experts” are entitled to their opinion and yours is not without some supporters.
Rumsfeld thought that the grateful Iraqis would come together, create a new government and be our faithful allies for ever more. Had he believed we would be in for several more years of combat we probably would not have been so eager to start that fight. As I recall, he had a lot company sharing those opinions including a sizeable number of Freepers.