Nothing New? Don't Be Too Sure
By Colonel Norvell B. "Tex" DeAtkine, USA (Ret.)
President Bush's new strategy for Iraq was fully sliced and diced by analysts and talking heads within 24 hours of his announcing it on 10 January. Apparently few minds were changed. But there were some important nuances buried in his presentation. Most notably, I believe it presages a subtle but fairly evident change in direction. What the plan reveals is:
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Colonel De Atkine is a former foreign area specialist who has taught Middle Eastern political-military affairs within the special operations community for the last 17 years. A graduate of the masters program at the American University of Beirut, he lived for 8 years in the Arab world and traveled extensively throughout the region. He was the military attaché in Amman, Jordan at the time of the 1970 Jordanian civil war and director of Army programs in the Office of Military Cooperation from 1981 to1983 as Egypt began its conversion from Soviet to U.S. military armament.
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