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An absolutely brilliant article in today's Washington Post regarding the war in Iraq that does more than analyze public opinion. Click on this quote from the article below to read the whole story. The author describes how the US got entangled in this conflict, and how military planning failed at all levels. Very interesting to learn about specifically what happened, and the title of the story In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam gives you some sense of the challenges ahead.

"When you're facing a counterinsurgency war, if you get the strategy right, you can get the tactics wrong, and eventually you'll get the tactics right," said retired Army Col. Robert Killebrew, a veteran of Special Forces in the Vietnam War. "If you get the strategy wrong and the tactics right at the start, you can refine the tactics forever, but you still lose the war. That's basically what we did in Vietnam."


-Noah