PPT Slide
In 2003, the U.S. Army has to invade Iraq again and the tracked force that was allegedly “legacy” saves the day
and reaches Baghdad to collapse the enemy center of
gravity when marines-in-trucks get stopped by enemy
RPGs and land mines despite “shock and awe” airstrikes
with “precision” computer guided bombs.
However, DoD and the Army thinks the war is over because the Iraqi nation-state army is defeated by their WWII-style blitzkrieg. This is actually 3rd generation warfare, but wars are caused by PEOPLE and machines are just tools, we forget that people can fight without belonging to a nation-state army if our political end-state hasn’t taken over; this is 4th generation warfare. Because the U.S. Army Airborne hasn’t fully developed air-mech 3D maneuver with upgraded M113 Gavin APCs and M8 Buford AGS light tanks to quickly parachute in and capture/kill enemy leaders in conjunction with 2D maneuvers, we slowly airland in M1s, M2s and M113s into North Iraq. Saddam Hussein and others escape Baghdad and start a guerrilla war. 500
dead and 10,000 wounded Americans later, we finally capture Saddam but the resistance continues….