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Friday, April 04, 2003
 
Is it even a War?

I commented earlier today that I didn't think the war could possibly being going any better than it is. This article (via the Command Post) asks if the Iraqis aren't fighting, whether we can even call it a war. There's a nice evaluation of the tactics or lack there of that Saddam has used so far. One point not addressed that I would have liked to have seen covered is whether - or to what degree - the US psy-ops tactics may have played a role in certain military leaders not following Saddam's orders. I think that in a couple of weeks when most of the fighting has wrapped up, we'll begin to hear more praise for the role our intelligence operations played in the days and weeks leading up to the invasion of Iraq. But that's just a hunch. As I also commented earlier today, I'm no intelligence analyst.