The Americans Still Don't Get It
By John Damien
The surge isn't going to work because it was wrong to begin with. The first rule for an occupier fighting an insurgency is that you can't win by killing insurgents. Killing insurgents is easy and makes it feel like you are doing something, but its a trap.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17549.htm
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Damien
The surge isn't going to work because it was wrong to begin with. The first rule for an occupier fighting an insurgency is that you can't win by killing insurgents. Killing insurgents is easy and makes it feel like you are doing something, but its a trap.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17549.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Damien
rudkla - 18. Apr, 16:47
