Years in Iraq change U.S. military’s understanding of war
10.23.2011 at 12:02pm
Years in Iraq change U.S. military’s understanding of war
by Greg Jaffe, Washington Post
COL Gian Gentile,
I hope we are going to start asking some of the hard questions now. What have the last eight years really gotten us? What has military force really accomplished in Iraq?
COL (ret.) Douglias Oliviant,
The fundamental truth of the Iraqi settlement is that the sectarian civil war ended — and the Sunni lost,” he wrote recently in a paper for the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank. “Upon realizing this defeat, the Sunni went into damage control mode to reach a settlement.
