No Guarantees
02.01.2009 at 09:10am
Tom Ricks’s Inbox at The Washington Post:
Marine Maj. Gen. Larry Taylor, now in Iraq, recently wrote to a young Marine to warn him against assuming that the country’s next war will be like those in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan. I was particularly struck by his last point — that the danger of being wrong about a big war is far greater than the danger of being wrong about a small one…
