On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign

[SWJED]

720 pages, 103 mb. Been surfing several sites concerning CAC's new study. As it has just been posted and is such a large document I've found it interesting that there are so may definitive opinions on what the study says.

It seems assumption trumps reading and digesting...

[Hacksaw]

A routine aspect of releasing a document such as On Point II, is the pre-release to folks who are likely to opine on the document. Given that first to "print" is important its often sent early, with caveat, that they can't publish critiques until official release. Its better that way than to have them guess what is written. I "assume" that happened in this case, but cannot confirm.

[RTK]

720 pages, 103 mb. Been surfing several sites concerning CAC's new study. As it has just been posted and is such a large document I've found it interesting that there are so may definitive opinions on what the study says.

It seems assumption trumps reading and digesting...

I've been downloading it all morning. 39% complete with 3 hours left.

[Gian P Gentile]

the Jim Lehrer News Hour on PBS did a short story on the study last night and interview one of the book's authors Dr Wright along with Gen McCaffrey and Doug Macgreggor. Here is the trasncript to the show.

I downloaded it this weekend and read the intro, conclusion, and chapter 3 on the rise of the insurgency.

[William F. Owen]

From Doug Macgregor's interview

There is this myth that Petraeus invented something entirely new and changed everything. The truth is that our forces adapted fairly early at the lowest levels to new circumstances. This book makes that very clear, and I think that's a good thing, because our forces at lower levels are adaptive, much more than they get credit for being.

So the starts the scramble to be the man who saved Iraq?

[Hacksaw]

From Doug Macgregor's interview



So the starts the scramble to be the man who saved Iraq?

I am Spartacus

Kirk Douglas (Taylor)

[Nomacomoro]

Spartacus??????