Viewed from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. Full Story »
Posted by Leo Romero
The strategy and tactics that this group of combat veterans talks about seems far more grounded in reality than the statements emanating within five miles of the Potomac. Whether their answer to the problem is the correct one may be a little harder to say, but they provide an accurate picture of the situation on the ground. I'm sure there will be a rebuttal piece from the Pentagon, or with the Pentagon's blessing. The authors drew a line in the sand -- sand that has seen the blood of thousands of American service personnel.
