How to win in Iraq
Via Blackfive, an article entitled Six Steps to Victory by Major Eric England (USAF reserves) now appears at The Daily Standard. In the article, England provides what he believes are the necessary six steps we need to take to achieve victory in Iraq - all of them driven from the bottom up.
Reading through it myself, I believe some of his assertions are a little dated. For example, he talks about pre-deployment training still focusing on cold-war training scenarios and the Gulf War. It’s been over a year since I went through deployment training at Fort Bliss, but the training was definitely focused on the conditions in Iraq. The techniques, tactics, and procedures they taught us were based on OIF I and II feedback, and some things had changed since then, but in general the majority of it was relevant to skills we needed in Iraq.
It’s very possible that some of the interviews of service members he did to derive his assertions were veterans from early in the conflict. I found in my own case, that depending on the person I talked to, where they were stationed in Iraq, and when they were stationed there played a big part in the relevance of their advise. People there early in the war had very different impressions of conditions in Iraq than people who were there later in the war.
Still, in all, an interesting piece and I found myself agreeing with the vast majority of it. But, in the words of a Blackfive commentator, “It all seems intelligent and logical. Therefore, none of it will ever be implemented.”
Weaselhunting takes a more strategic and frankly, dimmer view of the situation with his own version of how we can win in Iraq (and the greater Middle East). His version assumes that Iraq will never be a stable country.
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