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Posted on 04/12/2003 8:55:56 PM PDT by Diddley
Boldness has turned the tide in this war.
After an initial burst of action in which the ground war started before the air war and Special Forces denied the Iraqi military large swaths of territory in the West and South, hesitation appeared to risk gripping U.S. warplanners. But after the sandstorms of March 27-29, the Pentagon and the White House threw any remaining overcaution to the wind. Boldness prevailed in the rapid advance of ground troops into the heart of Baghdad and in warplanners' intellectual confidence that a precision air campaign of record brevity had pummeled the enemy enough for ground troops to push through.
It was just a week ago that critics including "some retired military officers embedded in TV studios," as Vice President Dick Cheney put it, were speculating that the U.S. military's advance was grinding to a pause, that long supply lines were vulnerable, and that without reinforcements, ground troops' move into Baghdad would be disastrous. Those criticisms went ignored — and rightly so. When in time Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President George Bush reveal what they were thinking early in the week of April 1, the public will learn whether that period was as much of a returning point to the campaign's early boldness as it appears.
Bold Move No. 1: Initial rapid ground assault and move towards Baghdad, and the reliance on Special Forces.
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Bold Move No. 2: Advancing rapidly into Baghdad with comparatively modest numbers of ground troops, long supply lines.
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Bold Move No. 3: Relying on the power of long-range precision strike and other technological advances.
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He (Rumsfeld) played boldly, and it's looking like he won
(Excerpt) Read more at techcentralstation.com ...
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To see, to know, to be...to fully comprehend the complete 3-dimensional battlefield (time, space, state of degradation) and ascertain real-time situational conditions as they present themselves,
this campaign, despite the newly fawned whinings of the left about the decrepit state of the Iraqi army,
demonstrates the successful facility of the fully integrated wings of the military campaign.
What makes this even more impressive is that the most technically linked corp of the Army, (4 ID) was not deployed...this leaves our future enemies in a tactical no-mans land as they try to reconfigure strategy for what we have shown them, while knowing the fear of what they know we possess for the fututre, but they have not seen in action...but since I don'y know anything, and am just rambling, I could be wrong...
Well, I don't think you are wrong. And it IS a 21st century military.
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