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2006-10-25 Iraq

Fallujah: Iraq Army Needs US Combat Support

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Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Perhaps the best solution would be something along the lines of the Sepoy system. Get the logistics, finance, and leadership above the company level out of the hands of the Iraqis. Your good company commanders could be promoted to police battalion commanders in order to create an upwards mobility path.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-10-25 01:32|| 2006-10-25 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Heh, 11A5S. They're Arabs. Everything we do regards them is problematic, all successes will be partial, all failures deadly, all efforts swallowed up in the Black Hole of Araby. Lol.

Posted by .com 2006-10-25 04:24|| 2006-10-25 04:24|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the key points is corruption / misappropriation of funds / embezzlement. Would like more details on "Sepoy" system, how did that prevent theft in office? How can rule of law be established in such a chaotic area?
Leaving air support to locals has a problem - without reliable local intelligence, how will the US know its air support isn't being used like a death squad?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-10-25 07:27|| 2006-10-25 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 The time honored solution to corruption in the military is to start public executions of those caught with their hands in the till followed by a very short one time amnesty for those who come clean.

Posted by RWV 2006-10-25 09:21|| 2006-10-25 09:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Point well taken .com In India, the Brits divided the peoples into warlike and unwarlike races. I was going to suggest using the Kurds and Turkish peoples to police the Arabs, but was worried lest LH or someone else here accuse me of racism. But what the hell. There it is.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-10-25 16:26|| 2006-10-25 16:26|| Front Page Top

#6 11A5S - just post after 5:00 PM Eastern - lh apparently only posts from work, lol. :-)

If only there were more Kurds. LOTS more Kurds, more than there are Shia, specifically, then Iraq could go internal soon and make a go of it - and succeed. The age-old problem in the M.E. - too many fucking Arabs, lol.

I got yer back, bro, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-10-25 16:57|| 2006-10-25 16:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Daniel Pipes is smart, ME-culturally literate, but militarily you'd be better off (that's not saying much) taking advice from me on how to do the job. Instead: Listen to your troops/NCO's and people in theater. Sounds like that's what we're doing. Now, make it work

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-10-25 18:46|| 2006-10-25 18:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Well there are a lot of Kurds, but many of them are in Turkey, Syria and Iran.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-25 18:52|| 2006-10-25 18:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Yo, Kurds: Allee, Allee in free!

Lol.

Posted by .com 2006-10-25 18:56|| 2006-10-25 18:56|| Front Page Top

#10 The time honored solution to corruption in the military is to start public executions of those caught with their hands in the till followed by a very short one time amnesty for those who come clean.

This also creates paths for upward mobility while replacing soured administrators.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-25 19:55|| 2006-10-25 19:55|| Front Page Top

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