re: Iraq Wireless

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: July 21, 2005 10:36:16 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Iraq Wireless
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[Note:  This comment comes from reader Dave Hughes.  DLH]


> From: "Dave Hughes" <dave () oldcolo com>
> Date: July 21, 2005 7:13:49 PM PDT
> To: <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] re: Iraq Wireless
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dewayne Hendricks"  
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> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: Iraq Wireless
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> > [Note:  This comment comes from a reader of Farber's IP list.  DLH]
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> > > From: "Ted Kircher" <tkircher () comcast net>
> > > Date: July 21, 2005 12:36:40 PM PDT
> > > To: "Mike Cheponis" <mac () Wireless Com>
> > > Cc: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>, "Dewayne Hendricks"  
> > > <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> > > Subject: Re: [IP] Iraq Wireless
> > >
> > > Mike,
> > >
> > > This is just one more reason why this is an unwinnable war
> > > - the enemy won't fight by the (currently) accepted rules of war.
>
> Utter nonsense. I know something about war - several of them matter  
> of fact, over 55 years worth, from up close and personal to the  
> highest levels of government during the Vietnam War after all the  
> mistakes had been made. The main reason this is dragging on is for  
> the same reason the US gave up after 10 years in the Vietnam War -  
> both Secretaries of Defense - McNamara, from the left, and  
> Rumsfeld, from the right both tried to personally micromanage their  
> wars, and the preparation for them, as 'civilian control' freaks,  
> who neither listened to nor followed the advice they were given by  
> competant military professionals. McNamara and the civilian hot  
> shots in the basement of the White House imposed their pet  
> 'escalation' theories on the Vietnam War - to include picking  
> individual targets for Air Force bombing over North Vietnam, or,  
> ala McNamara tried to use his pet 'cost effectiveness' theories  
> that worked at Ford to fight a classic Maoist three stage War of  
> National Liberation. He never understood the nature of that War. So  
> he sent B-52s to surpress political revolutionionaries.  Any good  
> Special Forces Colonel - who understood how to fight politico- 
> military Revolutionary opponents could have done a better job.. And  
> Rumsfeld utterly ignored the military advice he was given before  
> the invasion, about the troop strength and combinations that would  
> be needed, not just to knock off Saddam Hussain's Conventional  
> Paper Tiger troops, but far more importantly what it would take to  
> pacify, control and poltiically reconstruct the country, after the  
> conventional fighting was over and the regime overrun,  a nation of  
> 25 million spread out larger than California.  He refused to let  
> Colin Powell as Secretary of State - who knows something about war,  
> and insurgencies professionally - to take over the post combat  
> 'reconstruction' phase of the war, as the State Department  
> tradionally can do, and better than military  in the wake of  
> conventional military overthrow of local to national government.  
> JUST as we did suceessfully in Germany and Italy during the  
> 'occupation' . Rumsfeld STILL does not, nor do most of his neocon  
> hot shots from the Right, understand the Iraq War or what it will  
> take to succeed at our national objectives, which are NOT primarily  
> military.
>
> George Bush senior, who understood from his lowly Navy Pilot  
> experience how chains of command are supposed to operate and how to  
> delegate, gave his Military Commander, Schwartkopf, via his  
> Chairman of the JCS, Powell their political-mission orders in  
> Desert Storm, and did NOT micromanage them and didn't let Cheney do  
> it either. He knew, like Lincoln did, how to pick commanders,  
> delegate, expect performance and replace commanders who couldn't  
> perform.
>
> The problem, Ted, is at the top, not in the field. And not just  
> because Insurgents can use cell phones. But one thing the  
> Insurgents DO have going for them, is breathless US Media, driven  
> by profits and ratings, not public service, who turn every  
> individual car bomb into a global television 'chicken little the  
> sky is falling' Media Event.
>
> Dave Hughes
> dave () oldcolo com

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