Because Iraq IS the last war.

Let’s get serious. The Iraq campaign verified something that a lot of students of American military history had realized for a while…that the American public is not willing to support a war for much longer than three years. During the Civil War, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and now Iraq, the American public was initially enthusiastic. But after three years of fighting, they started to look for either victory or disengagement. If the voters see neither, they will eviscerate the party in power…as they did in 2006 and 2008.

And counterinsurgency is, by its nature, a prolonged process. It requires patience that Americans lack, and a forebearance that is alien to our national psyche. We are a Jacksonian people…we like our wars violent and short.

Shifting the emphasis of DOD to counterinsurgency is shifting scarce resources away from fighting techniques that we CAN use to those we WON”T use. It represents a willingness to throw away our advantages and fight the way our opponents want.

Not a good recipe for victory.

Chris,

You could be considered a genius for making that case. LOL. Not at you.

Bou,

You got a pretty loud engine there with some serious heating problems; would you like to live at the 180 with a pattern full of Lightening’s doing FCLPs? Ask hubby.

b2

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