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Originally posted by fxbezak: Since when is a war textbook? I hear this a lot.. all is not going as planned...when does it ever... and who the hell came up with the notion it did. This is somethign the press has been saying and aparently has stuck in peoples heads. There is no a->b->c here... you never know what your going to encounter and therefore need to make changes on the fly.. The main objective is to win. how you get there may take adjustments to the plan. No general or official ever said.. this is exactly how the war is going to go or how we expect it to go. go watch more CNN if you think anyone ever said there is a timeframe or concrete plan |
You haven't actually read this thread, have you?
Here's a repost of an article posted earlier, just for you:
Source: Washington Post
"Ten days into the invasion of Iraq, the political imperative of waging a short and decisive campaign is increasingly at odds with the military necessity of preparing for a protracted, more violent and costly war, according to senior military officials.
Top Army officers in Iraq say they now believe that they effectively need to restart the war. Before launching a major ground attack on Iraq's Republican Guard, they want to secure their supply lines and build up their own combat power. Some timelines for the likely duration of the war now extend well into the summer, they say.
This revised view of the war plan, a major departure from the blitzkrieg approach developed over the past year, threatens to undercut early Bush administration hopes for a quick triumph over the government of President Saddam Hussein"