Boston.com / News / World / Study ties Hussein, guerrilla strategy: "The report last week of the Iraq Survey Group, based partly on interviews with captured leaders of the secretive Iraqi regime, said Hussein planned to have his troops and loyalists pull back after an initial US thrust and engage the Americans under terms more favorable to the Iraqis." [--snip--]
Indeed, intelligence officials said that instead of reading up on tank warfare, Hussein and some of his top generals are believed to have been boning up on books penned by Vietnamese communists on guerrilla warfare tactics. [--snip--]
''All the after-action reports are pointing to the fact that we were postured for the wrong type of adversary," said Loren Thompson, a defense expert at the conservative Lexington Institution in Arlington, Va. ''We were looking for nuclear weapons and conventional formations, and the enemy was planning for elusive and unconventional operations."
He added: ''What looked initially like a big conventional victory looks like a military challenge for which we have no good response. This is really a serious problem because the whole world can see the pattern of Vietnam and Somalia in Iraq now."
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*DODO: Doesn't Obey Direct Orders
