Mike Yon's - The Ghosts of Anbar (Part 1)

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Michael Yon's latest dispatch - The Ghosts of Anbar (Part 1) - is both a look back at the failures of the war and the few success, specifically, in Anbar.  It's a prep for later dispatches in the Ghosts of Anbar series about the province and the Soldiers and Marines and Iraqis who have made a difference.

...Many Vietnam veterans fear that our leaders never learned the lessons they paid dearly for. And mostly they are right. However, some of our officers—like James Mattis and David Petraeus—have studied the lessons of Vietnam in great detail. But for a long time, although these two officers realized we were in the middle of an insurgency, it was tantamount to “un-American” to call insurgents insurgents. They were “dead-enders,” and since there was no insurgency, there was scant need for counterinsurgency warfare. Had these two officers been running this war from the beginning, it probably would be finished by now...

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Mike Yon's - The Ghosts of Anbar (Part 1)

Michael Yon's latest dispatch - The Ghosts of Anbar (Part 1) - is both a look back at the failures of the war and the few success, specifically, in Anbar.  It's a prep for later dispatches in the Ghosts of Anbar series about the province and the Soldiers and Marines and Iraqis who have made a difference.

...Many Vietnam veterans fear that our leaders never learned the lessons they paid dearly for. And mostly they are right. However, some of our officers—like James Mattis and David Petraeus—have studied the lessons of Vietnam in great detail. But for a long time, although these two officers realized we were in the middle of an insurgency, it was tantamount to “un-American” to call insurgents insurgents. They were “dead-enders,” and since there was no insurgency, there was scant need for counterinsurgency warfare. Had these two officers been running this war from the beginning, it probably would be finished by now...

Check it out.

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