Kagan, architect of Bush's Surge plan, gives comfort to the terrorists

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

These concerns threaten to deprive Bush of the support of many of the outside military experts who originally championed a plan for escalating the war by surging troops into Baghdad. The American Enterprise Institute's Frederick Kagan expressed his fears in an interview Friday about putting the Iraqis in charge and establishing two separate chains of command. "This is a major issue," he said. "In any military operation, dual chains of command are a problem. I think the administration has made a mistake."

McCain and Kagan, along with Jack Keane, the former vice chief of staff of the Army, advanced their own 20,000-soldier, American-led surge plan early this month, releasing a document at AEI, a hawkish Washington think tank . But Keane too expressed his reservations about Bush's proposed command structure in testimony on Capitol Hill last week. "When a platoon or company of U.S. forces and a platoon or company of Iraqi forces ... are reporting to different chains of command, it makes no sense to you, it makes no sense to me," Keane told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday. "But that's exactly what we're going to do."

These days, Kagan, in particular, has been careful to differentiate the AEI plan from what Bush actually proposed. The AEI blueprint advocated that American and Iraqi forces should work together -- with the more competent Americans in the lead and in control. The units would operate "within a single command structure," Kagan's written plan for a surge states. "Unity of effort is essential for success in this kind of endeavor." Small wonder that Kagan said about Bush's ideas in an interview, "This is not our plan. The White House is not briefing our plan."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/01/29/split_command/
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[Wetzelbill]

1. you hate Mercka!!!!

You cannot point these things out! It hurts our troops by revealing how these guys hurt our troops!!!!

[seemslikeadream]

2. Frederick Kagan leading bush advisor

"Widening the War"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x75635


The architect of the new plan

absolutely no military experience

Choosing Victory

http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=18228

Guns and Butter
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

"Widening the War"
Interview with author and historian, Webster Tarpley. The ramifications of Bush's speech to the nation on U.S. policy in the middle east, new political appointments, military maneuvers, and the crisis in Iraq are discussed. Tarpley compares today's crisis in Iraq with historic battles, and examines possible looming disasters if the U.S. does not give up on its imperialist Iraq adventure.

Frederick Kagan leading bush advisor

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:MgxVUs7N7AAJ:www.adolfhitler.ws/lib/speeches/text/391123.html+nov+23+1939+hitler+i+choose+victory&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
I am risking all this on a gamble. But I have to choose between victory or destruction. I choose victory. Greatest historical choice of all time, to be compared with the decision of Frederick the Great before the first Silesian War. Prussia owes its rise to the heroism of this one man. Even there, his closest advisors were disposed to capitulation. Everything depended on Frederick the Great. Even the decisions of Bismarck in 1866 and 1870 were no less great. My decision now is unchangeable. I shall attack France and England at the most favorable and quickest moment. Breach of the neutrality of Belgium and Holland is a meaningless issue. No one will question it when we have won. But we shall not bring about the violation of neutrality as idiotically as it was done in 1914. If we do not break their neutrality, then England and France will.