[Carolina]

Since we're on the subject of failed war plans, here's Victor Davis Hanson's view:

The Ironies of War

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Thus it is nearly impossible to recall a similar advance that has traveled so far, so fast, with so few losses, without major shortages of fuel, ammunition, and food — and without being parasitic on the surrounding countryside. What happened the last three weeks is unprecedented in military history.

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We have no idea of the nature of eventual peace settlements, but already the roll into Baghdad as an act of liberation and a military masterpiece will rank along with Epaminondas’s trek to free the helots, Sherman’s March, and Patton’s long race to the German border. Meanwhile, everyone seems either to have criticized or belatedly praised “the plan”; but so far no one seems to quite know how 250,000 brave American, British, and Australian young men and women in the field are actually pulling it off.

Victor Davis Hanson rocks!!

[GeorgiaYankee]

Since we're on the subject of failed war plans, here's Victor Davis Hanson's view:
The Ironies of War

--snip--
Thus it is nearly impossible to recall a similar advance that has traveled so far, so fast, with so few losses, without major shortages of fuel, ammunition, and food — and without being parasitic on the surrounding countryside. What happened the last three weeks is unprecedented in military history.

--snip--

We have no idea of the nature of eventual peace settlements, but already the roll into Baghdad as an act of liberation and a military masterpiece will rank along with Epaminondas’s trek to free the helots, Sherman’s March, and Patton’s long race to the German border. Meanwhile, everyone seems either to have criticized or belatedly praised “the plan”; but so far no one seems to quite know how 250,000 brave American, British, and Australian young men and women in the field are actually pulling it off.

Victor Davis Hanson rocks!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Speaking of war plans, remember all the "leaked" war plans?
Starting last August in the NY Slimes, we saw at least 6 different plans "Inside Out" "Rolling Start" "Gulf War Lite" and lately "Shock and Awe".

It seems to me that parts of each of these plans were used. We had a rolling start of ground forces into Iraq BEFORE the "Shock and Awe" air campaign. This week Baghdad seemed to fall overnight from the "Inside Out"!!

We told them what we were going to do, but it was still a surprise!