Lt. G reports from the point of the spear in Iraq. Let's see, you got your brand spanking new surge-based "decentralized warfare" with all the bright and shiny new theories.
"Then there is the war I fight.... The landowning Captain's plan wasn't bad. More complex than mine, certainly, but it had more moving parts, and was involving units that had never worked together before. Whereas my plan was like crashing lightning, in and out of there just long enough to nab JAM-Master Flex, this was like rolling thunder, a methodical cordon steeped more in book tactics than situational intelligence. His brief was better than mine, though. Very fluid, no crutch words. And his maps were in color, and had all kinds of cool demographical breakdowns. Shiny is fun, and keeps those of us with the attention span of gerbils entertained."More about your standard-issue contemporary army clusterfuck @ Kaboom: A Soldier's War Journal: A Recentralized War Posted by Vanderleun at May 1, 2008 5:55 PM | TrackBack
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