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2007-10-16 Iraq

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Posted by davekatz 2007-10-16 13:52|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 So, Mr. Katz, you're advocating that eg. the Sunni tribal militias which currently fight alongside our troops and the Iraqi army units should eventually be turned into a uniformed national guard like we have in the U.S.? I'm not arguing or challenging, just making sure I understand.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-16 14:43|| 2007-10-16 14:43|| Front Page Top

#2 TW,

I think he is actually advocating something like a combination of the National Guard and Neighborhood Watch.

It is difficult, however to understand amidst the platitudes, the tangential comments and the systems analysis mumbo jumbo.

Posted by mhw 2007-10-16 17:13|| 2007-10-16 17:13|| Front Page Top

#3 David J. Katz is director at Luster Nationals defense, security and intelligence division. He is a former Army captain and Green Beret.

If the David J. Katz who wrote the piece at the Armed Forces Journal site is the same as the davekatz who posted the same piece here, then he deserves a detailed critique -- including thoughts on improving his writing style for the civilian market. ;-)

Rantburgers, please have at it.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-16 17:25|| 2007-10-16 17:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Please pretend I closed that tiny bit of html code (you can't imagine how proud I am to write that!!) right after Journal, and all the rest is not italicized.

I think I need another nap.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-16 17:44|| 2007-10-16 17:44|| Front Page Top

#5 What Iraq needs are armed forces the members of which are paid directly by USA.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-10-16 17:59|| 2007-10-16 17:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I think the term National Guard creates the misunderstanding. Properly, this is more a hybrid of the military and the Interior ministry into a federal police. This takes the Interior ministry out of the police business, and makes them more like the US Justice Department, with this new unit being like the FBI.

But imagine if our FBI was more military in its organization, more like the Mexican Federales.

The hybrid would give them military discipline and weaponry, which tends to be much less sectarian, but their mission is of Interior Ministry policing.

Their focus would be against terrorist organizations, illegal militias, and large criminal gangs, all of whom would have more firepower than typical police would be able to take care of.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-16 19:26|| 2007-10-16 19:26|| Front Page Top

#7 So the ordinary police would be left with all the domestic stuff? Murders and bad kids and petty thievery?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-16 21:00|| 2007-10-16 21:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I think Mr. Katz is confuzing the non-federaly recognized state militia (i.e. the Tennessee Defense Force. Yes, that's what it's called. Yeee-haaa!) with the National Guard (i.e. 278th ACR). From the description, the mission he proposes falls under a local territoral militia AOR. A National guard implies a federal structure to the nation-state that does not exist in Iraq.

Iraq is too centralized a state to have the sort of semi-federalized militia-reserve hybrid that we currently call the National Guard.

Posted by N guard 2007-10-16 21:40|| 2007-10-16 21:40|| Front Page Top

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