Yep, they're in a different universe.
;-)
Hopefully, by the time this pos article reaches the news stands 4/7 it will be shown to be completely fraudulent.
At which point the New Yorker should reconsider Mr. Hersh's employment.
The problem with the Tomahawk missiles is they keep landing on Republican Guard positions and the dang tanks and armored vehicles have a serious flaw in that they won't stop until they take Baghdad. The army, in fact any big organization, always has a large number of people who want to do it the way we used to do it. There are always many that predict the failure of the new technologies. They are almost always wrong. But that never stops them from predicting defeat from new methods of accomplishing goals.
Our army before WWII could not see the value of air power. They kicked Billy Mitchell out of the service for saying airplanes could easily defeat battleships. Patton had a hard time convincing the top brass that armor was the way to go. As a result it took us from December 7, 1941 until June 6th 1944 to get the modern forces to invade the coast of France. When world war II started we were still flying biplanes as fighters. It was once the view of the US army that providing troops with semiautomatic firing rifles was bad because soldiers would just waste ammunition.
This time Rummy has made the military use far more modern weapons and methods. It is now obvious that the old infantry, armor, and artillery forces of Saddam are no match for a modern attack.
Iraq is the first time in history that a smaller force has attacked a larger force and easily won. The old belief that an attacking force must outnumber a defending force by 2 to 1 or better has been debunked. That is no longer true.
The modern USA weapons are a force multiplier. It is something the brass promoted by Clinton did not understand. Thank goodness that Bush had Rummy modernized our force. Rummy d kicked out of the military the stuck in the mud men who loved the old ways.
Those that believed in the old ways predicted failure the same way the admirals and Generals of the 1920s and 30s predicted the Battle ship would defeat air power. Back then the army brass was predicting that armor would never replace the infantry. They thought of armoy as a replacement for horse mounted cavalry.
Such beliefs belong on the dust heap of history along with the people who believed you could not win a war with our horse mounted cavalry.