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When General John Abizaid inherited the U.S. war in Iraq last year, some officers wanted him to boost the U.S. troop presence there to get a firmer grip on the violence racking the country. "More U.S. troops will lead to less consent for our presence among the Iraqis," Abizaid told them. Only partly in jest, he berated as "colonialists" those who wanted more U.S. troops in Iraq...
...suicide mission. But the battalion falls back from their advance. Enraged, the general orders three men shot for cowardice as examples for his entire army. During the battle and the trial, Kubrick details the fail-safe inefficiencies and inhumanities of the military tactics and political strategies, and troop and individual motivation, which prevent an intelligent officer (played by Kirk Douglas) from taking moral action. Because the dynamics of the military are merely extensions of politics, the film is an indictment of the general social situation it depicts as well. Kubrick's camerawork brilliantly expresses the varying cultural vacuums in which...
...suicide mission. But the battalion falls back from their advance. Enraged, the general orders three men shot for cowardice as examples for his entire army. During the battle and the trial, Kubrick details the fail-safe inefficiencies and inhumanities of the military tactics and political strategies, and troop and individual motivation, which prevent an intelligent officer (played by Kirk Douglas) from taking moral action. Because the dynamics of the military are merely extensions of politics, the film is an indictment of the general social situation it depicts as well. Kubrick's camerawork brilliantly expresses the varying cultural vacuums in which...
...decision by the Pentagon to swell the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq to 135,000 and make provision for more underscored the extent to which April's twin insurgent flare-ups had stretched the Coalition's combat capability. Allies willing to commit new troops are increasingly scarce, while U.S. officials report that as much as half of the Iraqi security forces recruited by the U.S. have proven to be unreliable against the insurgents. U.S. viceroy J. Paul Bremer on Tuesday said bluntly that such forces won't be in a position to ensure Iraq's security after the planned transfer...
That leaves the Americans. But as a Bush adviser asks, "Where are you going to get [more U.S. troops]? Bosnia? Korea?" Not likely. For the foreseeable future, when it comes to troop strength, what we see now is pretty much what...