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powerclown:
i wonder whether what you say in no. 28 reflects the same kind of wishful thinking that you saw in the algerian war and again in vietnam: what the adversary is, at some level, centralized, that it has a command structure that is symmetrical with that of the national army, that it has a head that can be cut off. do you think that this characterization is accurate with reference to american strategy here?
do you think that strategy sits on an accurate assessment of the opposition in iraq?
i am not an expert on military strategy, but it does not seem accurate, given the diffuse character of the insurgency, physically, tactically, in iraq.
it is because i am skeptical about this that i wonder whether the attack is a general response (this is what happens if you fuck with us) rather than t specific one (this operation will incapacitate a particular insrugent organization or series of them)--i cann see this going either way. if the former, i expect the actual battle will be about brutality because it is the brutality itself that is sending the real message. if the latter, then things might go otherwise.
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