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"Far from won and done" says JD Johannes.
The arc of the war in Iraq has mirrored the British experience in Malaya to an uncanny degree. U.S. Policy makers should study the history of Malayan civil war.If I did the math right in my head, that would mean about December, 2011.If they do, they will see that we need another three years or more of deliberate and precision hunting down of the insurgent cadres to finish the job permanently, lest the core be able to reconstitute itself.
Read the whole (brief) thing, in which we are reminded that counter-insurgency concepts are nothing new, in terms of the Iraq war or the larger world: "I first encountered Clutterbuck and the Malayan civil war as model for counter insurgency in Fallujah in 2005." Says J.D.
And much of which is related to this discussion (and others still to come).
(Via the Dawn Patrol, of course.)