War could last months. The most telling quote, to me, was this one:
bq. During planning for the invasion, worst-case scenarios sometimes predicated stiff resistance, but “no one took that very seriously,” an officer said.
Repeat after me. Hope is not a plan. [story via Medley]
Allen, In all honesty, I think it’s a little premature to be judging a campaign that just started a week ago. While I’m sure most Americans find the Iraqi resistance disappointing, there’s a tendency in the media right now to be over critical of the Pentagon and Rumsfeld’s decisions on how to prosecute the war. Similar things were said about the Afghanistan campaign until the tide turned rapidly in our favor. I would suggest that you give the war a month before passing judgement on our military planning and effectiveness. That’s what I’m doing. After a month, let the gloves come off, as at that point you will have adequate trends that you can reference in your analysis of success/failure. On a related note, I hear that Qualcomm is lobbying the government to rebuild Iraq’s mobile communications after the war using the CDMA standard as opposed to the European standard (I forget the acronym)…. What do you think of that?