From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Monte Davis wrote:
> Yeah, I know, Paul Van Riper's just doing it to sell a book, to
> overturn civilian control of the armed forces, etc. etc.
>
> http://images1.americanprogress.org/il80web20037/ThinkProgress/2006/generals8
.mov
>
> But the thing of it is, he was doing the same subversive shit before
> the war, too:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,786992,00.html
>
> In fact, he was doing it when he taught my brother at Quantico in
> 1966-1967.
>
>
>
>
"The principal concept on trial in Millennium Challenge was called
"rapid, decisive operation" (RDO), and as far as Van Riper and
many veteran officers are concerned, it is gobbledegook. "As if anyone
would want slow, indecisive operations!"

& My what an RDO Iraq has turned out to be.

Adam

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