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Brian — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:12 +0000

Ed, the reason we’re facing problems in Iraq today is not because we’re “looking ahead” at the moment. It is because Rumsfeld pursued a strategy that worked fine for overthrowing Saddam, but had very little real ability to stabilize Iraq afterward. Had we gone in with many more boots on the ground, expecting a bigger fight post-war, we’d have done a much better job in preventing this insurgency from springing up.
We were looking ahead in 2003, but we are not now.
Lesson for next time, if you are going to occupy a country, send lots and lots of men.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:05:08 +0000

I just realized a corolation here that might be useful.
If any of you are followers of any sports team or season, especially football, what do you always hate that your team might do when there is a strong opponent coming up in the schedule and the week before you face what you think is a weak team that all you have to do to win is show up on the field and the game is yours.
Its called looking ahead, and in the sports world it is very dangerous and has led to many teams having major upsets to supposedly weaker teams. Sound familiar to any scenario going on in the military?
Iraq was identical to this. We thought for sure that there would be no insurgency in Iraq, that the Iraqi Army would for the most part throw down their arms and we would be greeted in the streets by the Iraqi People. Now we are deep in a hard fight which from the looks of things might be close to turning around for us. I’m not saying Iraq is turning for sure, although I hope that it is. But don’t you see the issue here? Yes we need to be prepared for future conflicts, but not at the expense of losing the battles we fight today.
This is what Gates is trying to stop. Are systems like the F-22, the F-35, the Virginia class submarines, LCS, FCS, etc. important for us to be a viable threat to future opponents? Most certainly this is the case. But have you all forgotten who some of our adeversaries are? North Korea, Syria, and Iran come to mind here, and guess what? Even though they have a large conventional force, they all also have unconventional forces and doctrines as well that fit into the combat we are doing today.

By: pedestrian

pedestrian — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:23:07 +0000

I agree in some terms with Gates, but only in case of very limited budget. My conclusion is that there is not just enough for military budget and should be what it was during the Cold War era. In other words, we should have enough money to spend for current wars, and for possible wars of the future. The Beijing Olympics is about to come and it has been often rumor it would be the point which China would start considering invasion of Taiwan after the Olmpics is over, the most likely scenario of war with western countries. We should not be dreaming a post Cold War era, we are in Cold War II with China, but even worse China is now a non-democratic Capitalist country that will not fall like USSR.