The Iraqi "Victory" plan document.

[walldude]

I found my way to this thanks to this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3072719



Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq

...We must act now to restore security and stability to Baghdad. We and the enemy have identified it as the decisive point.

There is a way to do this.

* We must balance our focus on training Iraqi soldiers with a determined effort to secure the Iraqi population and contain the rising violence. Securing the population has never been the primary mission of the U.S. military effort in Iraq, and now it must become the first priority.
* We must send more American combat forces into Iraq and especially into Baghdad to support this operation. A surge of seven Army brigades and Marine regiments to support clear-and-hold operations that begin in the spring of 2007 is necessary, possible, and will be sufficient to improve security and set conditions for economic development, political development, reconciliation, and the development of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to provide permanent security.
* American forces, partnered with Iraqi units, will clear high-violence Sunni and mixed Sunni-Shia neighborhoods, primarily on the west side of the city.
* After those neighborhoods are cleared, U.S. soldiers and Marines, again partnered with Iraqis, will remain behind to maintain security, reconstitute police forces, and integrate police and Iraqi Army efforts to maintain the population’s security.
* As security is established, reconstruction aid will help to reestablish normal life, bolster employment, and, working through Iraqi officials, strengthen Iraqi local government.
* Securing the population strengthens the ability of Iraq’s central government to exercise its sovereign powers.

This approach requires a national commitment to victory in Iraq:

* The ground forces must accept longer tours for several years. National Guard units will have to accept increased deployments during this period.
* Equipment shortages must be overcome by transferring equipment from non-deploying active-duty, National Guard, and reserve units to those about to deploy. Military industry must be mobilized to provide replacement equipment sets urgently.
* The president must request a dramatic increase in reconstruction aid for Iraq. Responsibility and accountability for reconstruction must be assigned to established agencies. The president must insist upon the completion of reconstruction projects. The president should also request a dramatic increase in Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP) funds.
* The president must request a substantial increase in ground forces end strength. This increase is vital to sustaining the morale of the combat forces by ensuring that relief is on the way. The president must issue a personal call for young Americans to volunteer to fight in the decisive conflict of this generation.
* The president and his representatives in Iraq must forge unity of effort with the Iraqi government.

Other courses of action have been proposed. All will fail.

* Withdraw immediately. This approach will lead to immediate defeat. The Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are entirely dependent upon American support to survive and function. If U.S. forces withdraw now, the Iraqi forces will collapse. Iraq will descend into total civil war that will rapidly spread throughout the Middle East.
* Engage Iraq’s neighbors. This approach will fail. The basic causes of violence and sources of manpower and resources for the warring sides come from within Iraq. Iraq’s neighbors are encouraging the violence, but they cannot stop it.
* Increase embedded trainers dramatically. This approach cannot succeed rapidly enough to prevent defeat. Removing U.S. forces from patrolling neighborhoods to embed them as trainers will lead to an immediate rise in violence. This rise in violence will destroy America’s remaining will to fight and escalate the cycle of sectarian violence in Iraq beyond anything an Iraqi army could bring under control.

Failure in Iraq today will require far greater sacrifices tomorrow in far more desperate circumstances.

It's all here:
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.25396,filter.all/pub_detail.asp

On edit: Btw, if you click the "related links" link at the bottom of the document at the posted link it tells you where it was presented, Senators in attendance were, suprise, suprise John McCaine and Joe Lieberman.

[k8conant]

1. Excuse me while I vomit ...

There's one for the Re:puke:licans.

[slipslidingaway]

2. The Real Iraq Study Group

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/salon_1_06_07.htm


snip>>

Forget Jim Baker's crew. The neocon hawks who sold the war, joined by John McCain and Joe Lieberman, unveiled their new plan for "victory": At least 25,000 new troops in combat roles well into 2008.

By Mark Benjamin

Jan. 06, 2007 | Hawks gathered in the plush, carpeted suites of the conservative American Enterprise Institute on Friday to discuss a new course in Iraq they say should be spearheaded by tens of thousands of new troops camped out in Baghdad neighborhoods in active combat roles well into 2008.

The plan is not to be dismissed. Unlike the much ballyhooed Iraq Study Group, these are the people President Bush listens to, many of them the same influential voices who were predicting in 2002 that the war would establish a flower of democracy in the Middle East. Sitting in the overheated, standing-room-only conference hall, a Department of Homeland Security official leaned over to me to note the irony that reporters had paid so much attention to the workings of the Iraq Study Group, as opposed to the troop-surge plans being cooked up at AEI. "This is the Iraq Study Group," he quipped.

Bush is expected to release a new Iraq strategy next week that reportedly hinges on a troop increase, and many have said his thinking has been influenced by the AEI experts who gathered on Friday.

The think tank's plan is not for the lighthearted. The glossy 47-page AEI report, titled "Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq," envisions sending 25,000 additional troops to clear Baghdad house by house. Then, as report author Frederick W. Kagan put it, those soldiers would not pull back to their bases but remain stationed in Baghdad neighborhoods, providing security for civilians. "We can clear and hold critical terrain in Baghdad," Kagan told the crowd.<<


Also scarletwoman posted this link back in December while the media was discussing the 'other' report. Link to the full report is at the bottom.

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2006/12/stalingrad_on_t.html

[XOKCowboy]

3. Vomit alert but here is the bio of Kagen...

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1240

This guy is and has been PNAC all the way. Oh and he's never served in the military.

[Clarkie1]

4. Absolutely delusional. It can't be won militarily and the problem is regional, not national. nt

[XOKCowboy]

6. Your problem is....

you deal with facts. These are the PNAC guys. They deal with doctrine and theory. Much easier especially when it's not THEM doing the fighting.

[Wiley50]

5. Surely The Bush Twins Will Be The Poster Girls For Signing Up, Huh?

"The president must issue a personal call for young Americans to volunteer to fight in the decisive conflict of this generation."

[Wiley50]

7. I Can't Believe That People Are Overlooking This Thread

You Coulda picked a flashier title

Kick

[walldude]

8. kick

[walldude]

9. I fucking give up.. I post the actual plan for the troop surge

and it gets 8 replies and 2 recs over 15 hours. Yet if I post a smoking thread it will get 100 replies in 10 minutes. :shrug: