ObieX

Iraq was a strange case. On one had they either had too many troops or moved too fast, since the Iraqi army just kinda.. well.. just stopped fighting, allowing us to roll right in. But then, after, we found we ended up just how they wanted us, with not enough troops when everything went underground. At which point our troops had been spread way too thinly all around the country, with easily disruptable supply lines largely due to not enough troops (among other issues, like not only having few troops, but having those troops unprepared for combat i.e. Not enough body armor / vehicle armor). They knew they stood no real chance with a conventional war, we would have kicked their asses royally. This should have been expected. And HIGHLY expected. In this region, especially, it is to be expected that the fight would turn into a very deadly and messy urban guerilla war. All of this combined with politics jerking our troops around in the field (like in Falluja) made for an aweful predicament.

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