Re: (Iraq) This war a meatgrinder for the U.S.?

From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 03:53:46 MST

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    John Grigg <starman2100@lycos.com> wrote:

    > I found this Australian news article gave a good overview of the
    > daunting challenges ahead if the U.S. and British troops are required to
    > engage in extensive urban combat to occupy the Iraqi cities, especially
    > Baghdad (pop. 4.5 million).

    I just ran across an article in Telepolis that claims that there
    is no modern precedent for a large city being taken successfully
    where the defenders decided to hang on and actually fight to the
    end. Certainly the WWII examples of Leningrad and Stalingrad don't
    bode well. 

    -- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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