[where's_the_Outrage?]

Iraq required this--the war on terror is really a war to be waged by special-ops and policing.

I think Irag was waged correctly, and Afghanistan for the most part. Waging Irag exclusively by Special Ops and Air power would have gone on for years because a centralized government had military power. Afghanistan was a country of factions without the central Military base, just right for Special Ops.

The current military design was made to have full effort, get in and get out, like the Gulf War I. This war on terror will be a prolonged operation. I don't see any way around it short of nuking the entire middle east, and that's even too extreme an option for me.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Afghanistan was a country of factions without the central Military base, just right for Special Ops.

You've got a handle on it. If we really wanna win this thing, we will remove the big conventional task force and it's three-star commander, and put the whole war under the command of the CJSOTF-A (Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force, Afghanistan). Give him the infantry battalions, and let his staff plan operations, rather than the gung-ho but unimaginative conventional officers who have been doing it so far.

However, the odds of that happening are very small. For many Army officers, the war is about careers.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Destro]

I meant I don't view the war on al-Qaeda linked to Iraq. Fighting al-Qaeda is really a war to be waged by special-ops and policing.