SWJED
02-22-2007, 09:17 PM
Dave Kilcullen's latest at the Small Wars Journal blog - The Baghdad Marathon (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2007/02/the-baghdad-marathon/).
[Note: While I have received official approval to offer personal comment at SWJ Blog, the following post has not been vetted or screened in any way. It represents personal opinion only, and is strictly unclassified and based solely on open source material.]
It has been a busy few weeks. Operation Fadr al-Qanoon (which the media calls the “Baghdad security plan”) is shaping up. Progress is measurable, but this is a marathon, not a sprint, and it’s still too early to know how it will turn out.
The message for all of us, as professionals who do this for a living, is patience, patience, patience. The war has been going for nearly four years, the current strategy less than four weeks. We need to give it time...
As always we ask that you comment at the blog and then here... Many thanks,
Dave D.
[Note: While I have received official approval to offer personal comment at SWJ Blog, the following post has not been vetted or screened in any way. It represents personal opinion only, and is strictly unclassified and based solely on open source material.]
It has been a busy few weeks. Operation Fadr al-Qanoon (which the media calls the “Baghdad security plan”) is shaping up. Progress is measurable, but this is a marathon, not a sprint, and it’s still too early to know how it will turn out.
The message for all of us, as professionals who do this for a living, is patience, patience, patience. The war has been going for nearly four years, the current strategy less than four weeks. We need to give it time...
As always we ask that you comment at the blog and then here... Many thanks,
Dave D.