[SBprone]

I'll admit that I only skimmed this piece. But every line I skimmed had that characteristic Stratfor smell of BS.

Baghdad is a large city. It takes more than one or two Bozos with RPGs to interfere with an airmobile assault. Do the Fedayeen know how to move and mass their limited resources with the speed it would take to block our insertions and extractions? Can they threaten a loitering gunship from their rooftops? Will they know when they've been target by a laser guided bomb? Can they do Jack S*** when our teams go hunting for their sorry asses?

I doubt it.

[Credo]

The US Armed Forces has taken down several metropolitan areas besides Paris. Mexico City, Richmond VA, and Seoul. All three were accomplished by annihilating the opposing army - something that is pretty done now in Baghdad. Oh yeah what about Kuwait City? Vicksburg? Atlanta.

It's not going to be easy but I think the Brits have the right idea in Basra. The center of gravity for the Iraqis is the people's fear of the Regime. Once that is gone, the ballgame's over.

[thoughtomator]

We're not fighting with 1941 strategy anymore.

Den Beste's opinion I think is a more realistic appraisal of the situation.