New approach for US army manual (BBC)

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By Kim Ghattas
BBC News, Washington

The US army has drafted a new manual which for the first time puts an equal emphasis on winning hearts and minds as it does on defeating enemies by force.

The manual is expected to be published later this month.

The new guide is seen as a major development that draws on lessons of the wars being fought by US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Initial military successes there have given way to long struggles, with insurgents in both countries.

Winning the peace

The commander of the US army's Combined Arms Centre, Gen William Caldwell, told the BBC that the US army had learned from its experiences since 2001 that stabilising countries and winning over locals required more than just military skills.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7236054.stm

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1. eppur_se_muova

eppur_se_muova

I guess it is little "late" in Iraq, and in the most of the middle east when the US army, and the "private contractors" have just killed ONE Million Iraqi citizen already.. It is "little late" to win heart and mind when you have destroyed a whole country, and given almost free reign to extremist who want to turn Iraq, a former secular nation into a fanatical Islamic Califate...

General William Caldwell are to late, wherry to late if he believe that after so many death american can win heart and mind of iraqi citizen without that they who are responsible for this are tried, and send to prison somehwere... Justice wil be a yoke if you let it go..


US as a nation have doing more harm in Iraq than good.. Ok US managed to get rid of, and killed a arch enemy, a old man who was over 70 year old, and possible with cancer.. But US are not in a better position today, then you was 4 year ago. US have not been cab able of taking hold of Mr Osam Bin Laden, and a last get him into a fair trail...

US have failed grossly in Iraq, and I have not the singlest clue how US should manage to get out of Iraq, without losing face, and favor with the arabian public.. I don't know how US forces should manage to get out, without extremely high causality, and a los of lot of military hardware.. One thing is to drive the trucks and tanks out, but everything else have to be packed, and that who you cant take with the army have to be destroyed. How shall US manage that..?.. And everything that you cant get out by truck, or by aircraft or by ship, have to be re-managed when the forces are coming home to US.. It Will cos US taxpayers a hell of money to get the armed forces rebuild.. And if everything is true abut the state of us forces.. The forces have to be rebuild anyway...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad English, not my native language

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