IHT Op Ed: A Soldier in Iraq
Op-Ed in the International Herald Times,
By SWC Member Gian P Gentile
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After spending 2006 in command of an armor reconnaissance squadron in some of West Baghdad's toughest neighborhoods, I learned to be very humble when linking causes to the effects I thought my unit produced.
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The American Army's new counterinsurgency doctrine told me to attack the root problems that allowed the insurgency to exist in my area. But some roots were impossible to get at.
Well, we're still in Kosovo...
eight years later and they're still trying to work out the political details...
In Iraq, I think we planned to leave in the July-August 2003 time period but something happened in early May that changed the plan. I have no idea what but there was a lot of shuffling going on. In any event, it's only a little over five years, Saddam is gone -- and they're still trying to work out the political details.
Thus there's a lot of similarity.
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