From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Er we did not inherit Iraq.

Do you think the tactics used by the insurgents in Iraq are the same as in
Latin America ? Shoot are the tactics even the same as in Afghanistan ?


"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in message
news:42e08f83$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> So what has changed about insurgencies?
>
> Not much from what I can see.  Destabilize the govt, terrorize the
> populace,
> etc.
>
> Only now its IslamoFacists rather than communists.  The thing with Iraq is
> we're trying to combine a number of different tasks along with
> counterinsurgency because we've inherited a country with a pre-wasted
> infrastructure, and we lack sufficient language experts - something that
> really wasn't an issue in south/central america.
>
> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
> news:42e07cb1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> After 1973, the U.S. military quickly dropped the study of insurgency and
>> turned back to so-called "real war," he said, but now
officials need to
>> study this form of warfare, "not as it once was, but as it is
now."
>

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