June 21, 2007
How to lose a war
I'm not a military strategist but isn't the whole point of setting a trap to have an element of surprise? And, doesn't Reuters reporting on that trap limit that element?
The US military said on Thursday it was setting a trap to "eliminate" militants near Baghdad where 12 US soldiers have died in the past two days.
UPDATE: BBC solicits information on troop movements in Iraq.
Posted by Karol at June 21, 2007 04:24 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Iraq+War
Actually, this operation is already underway. If you go to Michael Yon's site (also linked from Instapundit)he has dispatches about it.
The surprise comes from the details of the operation. For example, for work a couple of years ago, I had to spend two weeks on a destroyer. I could tell my family that I was going to sea, and that I was leaving from Norfolk, stopping in Acapulco, and getting off in San Diego. What I couldn't say were the dates of individual departures, or where and what we would be doing in the meantime, or any of our other intermediate stopping points.
Posted by: David at June 21, 2007 09:14 PMAnd as a matter of nitty semantics, this isn't a matter of strategy so much as a matter or tactics.
Posted by: David at June 21, 2007 09:16 PMI'm not a military strategist but isn't the whole point of setting a trap to have an element of surprise?
If you were the enemy of someone who stated their plans to the international press corps, how would you know if what they're saying they're going to do is actually what they plan or if they're using subterfuge to distract you from their real attack?
Posted by: Pokerwolf at June 22, 2007 07:34 AM
