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...what's the alternative? Only the Iraqis themselves can do the door-to-door work necessary to secure Baghdad-and if Baghdad can't be secured, the war is surely lost. "For this to have any chance of success, the Army has to make some basic changes," Krepinevich says. "Our current goal is to support each Iraqi battalion with an 11-person team of U.S. advisers. The proper number is more like 30. Also, we need the very best people doing this. Right now, being an adviser to an Iraqi battalion doesn't help you get the next promotion...
...possible no such strategy exists. But last week there was a glimmer of a shred of a possibility: Operation Forward Together, the Iraqi-led effort to secure Baghdad-finally!-using classic counterinsurgency methods. "What they're trying to do is take back the city, sector by sector," says Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a leading expert on counterinsurgency (coin is the inevitable military acronym). You might well ask, What is coin? Let me oversimplify: coin is the military equivalent of the police strategies that mayors like New York City's Rudy Giuliani used...
...report-paid for by the Pentagon-echoes the recent private grumblings of some top military brass that the rapid deployment of troops to Iraq is in danger of crippling the fighting force that the nation has steadily rebuilt since the shaky post-Vietnam Army of a generation ago. Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer and West Point graduate who wrote the 136-page report assessing the military's Iraq strategy, warns that the Army cannot maintain its current pace of operations in Iraq without leaving permanent damage. Plans to trim U.S. troops there this year-now at 138,000, with...
...George Casey said. "I don't think there's any question of that. But the Army has been for the last several years going through a modernization strategy that will produce more units and more ready units." Still, his boss, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, flat-out declared Wednesday that Krepinevich's study "is just not consistent with the facts." But as the defense secretary spoke to reporters at the Pentagon, Democrats led by former defense secretary William Perry released a report making similar claims as Krepinevich's. Today's Army, the second report concludes, is under enormous strain with potentially...
...brother was absolutely right. To ordinary Iraqis, only one thing matters in these difficult times: security.Many policy strategists agree that protecting the Iraqi people seems not to have been a priority of the American plan of action in Iraq. In an essay in the journal Foreign Affairs, Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., Executive Director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, contends that “U.S. forces in Iraq have largely concentrated their efforts on hunting down and killing insurgents.” He adds that “the current record [of this approach] is not good: even...