Quote Originally Posted by Culpeper View Post
In my opinion Rumsfield did a great job in the beginning where conventional warfare was the stronger point of the sword. I don't know if he was doing a good job switching to counterinsurgency tactics or not. Maybe someone here could could elaborate fuller on this matter. Thanks.
... we declared 'game won' in the fourth. Zinni was spot on and warned us that 'regime change' is not an end state. Great tactics equate to sand in the wind unless there is a strategy to achieve a defined end state.