[tonycavanagh]

re :I don't doubt you but might I ask how you get info as to the inner goings on of the DoD, I'd like to get in that loop.

That is a very sad thing to say, have you not read the news about Iraq right from the start, have you not taken a real interest.

Maybe as someone who took part in the initial and subsequent COIN ops I have a real interest in this

At the beginning during the planning stage there were enough stories in the press on TV about whether we needed a phase 4, what should we do with the Iraqi Army what were are plans for Iraq once we toppled Saddam.

I don’t know how long you have been freeping, but I was talking about this before we went into Iraq. Tell you what google Donald Rumsleld and goodle phase 4..

Sorry if I sound angry at you, but if those who say they support the troops don’t know the reality then how the hell can we mobilise the rest of the population

[Proud_texan]

You can easily check how long I've been here but it appears to me that you're getting your info from press reports. Just a bit longer than you have, but why is that material to my question?

If you want to take the info you get from the NYT or even WND as gospel then by all means do so, but perhaps you should state as much as at least a few of us here don't believe a word of them. If, on the other hand, you were in the meetings and can report first hand that's another matter. That doesn't seem to be the case.

You don't sound angry, you sound like you're been reading too much MSM and believe every word of it in which case you have zero credibility from this long time Freeper.

[bad company]

http://da.mod.uk/defac/publications/Alywn-Foster%20SHP%202005.pdf

Not joining in on the disagreement here, but on a lark googled up COIN a few different ways and came up with the pdf link above. Rather interesting. It's from the British ministry of Defense on COIN ops in Iraq.