Why Big Things Fail
Posted by Andrew Riley on Jul 6th, 2007 • 174 Clicks

Crispin Sartwell over at Reason Magazine has written an article discussing how our military has grown so large that it has lost the speed and agility we need to fight the type of war we are currently engaged in.

American Iraq policy has been characterized by sluggishness. Think of it as the time it takes for a message to get from the extremities to the central nervous system and then for the response to return to the limb. While Rumsfeld and company spent years hemming and hawing over whether there was an insurgency or a civil war going on, the situation on the ground continued to change, radically, day by day. It took months to decide to send in 20,000 more troops, and during those months the situation was entirely transformed.

We’re basically trying to swat flies with a sledge hammer. Maybe we need to rethink the way we’re waging this war.
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