Seems to be quite a bit worse off than it was in Sadaam's time. I wonder if the US Army has really learned anything about fighting an insurgency when I see these figures. One might surmise that there are simply different rules to fighting an insurgency in a tribal culture with access to modern weaponry (as opposed to a jungle insurgency).
But we seemed to have learned little or nothing from the British experience in Northern Ireland. Or maybe it was just that services were degraded so much by the initial thrust of the war that they've never recovered.
High time to leave.
Posted by artandscience at July 6, 2007 01:13 PM