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...true that the latest Baghdad security plan - which has seen several thousand American and Iraqi troops isolating and searching the city's most dangerous neighborhoods - has reduced the violence here for the moment. But over and over again Iraq's insurgents have shown the willingness to bide their time during major US operations only to resurface when the American troop presence inevitably declines. So the real (and more difficult) question is not what the operation accomplishes in the short-term, but whether there is any genuine hope of stemming insurgent violence and sectarian strife in the long-term...
...Israeli forces. But the Lebanese Army, whose forces in the south have traditionally been on good terms with Hizballah, and whose fighting forces are almost half Shi'ite, is unlikely to try and forcibly disarm Hizballah. France - which is slated to lead the U.N. force and be its major troop-contributor with some 5,000 men - has said the same thing...
...until the foreign force arrives - and the delay lies not simply in assembling volunteers, but in getting Hizballah to agree to a truce, which many prospective troop contributors insist is a precondition for deployment - Israel's leaders must decide just how far into Lebanon Sgt. Yoshua's tank should roll...
...failure of new political nostrums is driving Iraqi and U.S. officials to retry military remedies that have been thoroughly discredited: massive security rings around Baghdad, high-visibility troop presence in the streets and sweeping house-to-house searches. If Iraq has taught us anything in the past three years--and Lebanon in the past three weeks--it is that conventional military tactics don't work in an asymmetrical conflict. Sheer numbers and firepower count for very little. Despite an ongoing 50,000-man, joint U.S.-Iraqi military operation dubbed Operation Forward Together to flush Baghdad clean of nationalist insurgents, jihadist...
...earned my master’s degree from Harvard University at night while serving my country as an active duty infantry officer during the day,” Wakim said. In fact, he also wrote his thesis on troop preparedness...