Selasa, 13 Juni 2017

Voices | Barry McCaffrey

There was no tactical, operational way to win the war, given the constraints When U.S. forces crushed Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf War, many of the top commanders had been young officers in Vietnam and applied what they had learned there—learned not to do.  They included Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint …

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