Iraq: heavy forces and decisive warfare.

From: Parameters | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Iraq War was a stunning example of the new paradigm of "decisive warfare," even more so than had been the Afghanistan campaign. The Bush Administration came into office defining this new paradigm as the ability to march on an enemy's capital and overthrow its regime. (1) The thinking behind this paradigm is often linked to the failure of the United States to march on Baghdad in 1991, but there is also a link back to the indecisive "limited war" doctrine which led to failure in Vietnam. In Southeast Asia only Hanoi waged decisive warfare by sending an army south to capture ...

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