oh man...I hope this stops before we end up in urban combat

[Dagger 21]

I pray for our troops and those of our allies..I only hope that they can achieve all objectives before this ends up in Bagdad in a door to door fight. I can tell you urban combat is nasty dirty work and it is very dangerous.I'm hoping that the air war will make the iraqi military decide to divorce themselves from saddam and his generals.

[Guest Ranger332]

nice thought but wars are never won till ya get troops in the dirt and Iam afried this one will require MOUT operations

[Dagger 21]

yeah..I just hate it for the grunts...I hated it and we weren't even in a shooting war..I was part of a UN peace keeping force and man I have to say walking around in a city full of people that don't want you there isn't fun.

[SDirickson 0]

I'd love for it to be that easy, but I'm gonna have to go with Ranger on this one. And, although I know it'll be tough for our guys, I don't even want to begin to imagine having to fight for the other side. They may have the classical advantages... but its hard to stop a tank with a slingshot under even the best of circumstances. Guess which side has the tanks, lol.

 

One thing we might want to remember is how many people during the last war predicted a month long ground campaign, even a new Vietnam. If this war goes as well as the last, I'm gonna be hard pressed to act surprised when we finish things in a 3 day ground rush. We shall see.

[Guest Ranger332]

I hope for another 3 day war but I fear longer is more like it and dont forget the occupation force that will remain maybe for years we still have ppl stationed from the last time in the area.

[SDirickson 0]

Well, I think ousting Saddam will make the sitiuation in Iraq totally reverse. Its not too bad duty being an occupation force in a grateful country. At least the Kurds will be grateful.