http://www.military.com/Resour...=Hackworth_Index.htm

Someone again deleted the links to the Colonels articles. Almost unbelievable to do something like that on his own discussion board. Click either above, or below, to access those many timely articles concerning what most of us hold dearest to our heart, the defense of this nation against our mortal enemies.

Once again here it is http://www.military.com/Resour...=Hackworth_Index.htm

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WELL DONE, BROTHER BARKER...

I WAS WONDERIN WHAT HAPPENED

THANKS FOR THE STEER

I have e-mailed our new Lead Mod and inquired of what happened, regarding the problem.

BUMP...THIS BELONGS AT THE TOP

I agree, since I am the new lead mod again, so be it!

U DA MAN, DAVE

Dave, either my skills in obtaining info have deteriorated, along with my intellectual faculties, resulting from an organic brain disorder. But I can not obtain the archived articles. Though I did find that Hack's site is undergoing construction if ya got any leads to get there from here, please pass 'em on.
HB^6 daCAT

http://www.military.com/Resour...=Hackworth_Index.htm

This one still works!

Thank You,

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Hackworth: Holding In Afghanistan While Winning
In Iraq

July 16, 2003

Now that Gen. Tommy Franks has hung up his soldier suit, one wonders whether he'll be hailed as a hero or take heavy heat over what’s gone down in Iraq while he was head honcho. Military insiders say Franks might pre-empt the historians with a tell-all that could be devastating to top Pentagon players. Some say the concept for the book depends on which high-paying military-industrial-congressional complex board slots he’s offered versus what the publishers with deep pockets are bidding.

In the meantime, our soldiers in Iraq remain the bull’s-eye in a shooting gallery that gets bloodier as each so-called peacekeeping week explodes into the next. But because newly appointed Gen. John Abizaid is now the High Sheriff in both Afghanistan and Iraq, things might soon take a turn for the better.

Four-star unconventional warrior Abizaid – out of West Point, Ranger School and Harvard – is not only smart and tough, he speaks Arabic and well understands the culture of the Muslim world, where we and this great country of ours are anathemas to many if not most of its inhabitants.

Abizaid, who jumped into Grenada in 1983 with a Ranger unit, is a fighter as well as a thinker. The word is that he well understands how to handle guerrillas – folks who served down in the mud with him say he thinks like a G (guerrilla) and well understands that in a guerrilla war, if you’re not winning, you’re losing.

Hopefully, the new chief of Central Command will re-evaluate the present flawed strategy, address the consequences and then refocus on destroying the folks who brought us 9/11. We should never forget that our primary national security objective must always be to prevent major al-Qaeda-type terrorist attacks on the USA.

At the same time, we need to convey that we’re into nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq and are not about to cut and run as we did after taking our lumps in Beirut and Somalia. To do this, Abizaid must reinforce the sputtering economy-of-force mission in Afghanistan with more troops and prevent that war-torn country from going further down the toilet while he simultaneously launches a strong counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq to get that nation back on its feet.

Two key planks in a successful counterinsurgency program are U.S. leadership on the ground and a strong Iraqi grass-roots force to fight Saddam's Ba’athist plants busily fomenting mayhem and forming guerrilla cells.

But the U.S. ground commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan – a fine conventional soldier with Patton-like ability when it comes to commanding a tank army – has zip experience in counterinsurgency ops. A good man for the wrong job, he should be replaced ASAP by a Special Forces snake-eater with serious experience being a G, training G’s and fighting G’s.

We must also lean on the world community to immediately send peacekeeping reinforcements to Iraq while Abizaid simultaneously transfers the main burden of fighting the G’s to Iraqi citizens – preferably those who hate the Ba’athists – just as we successfully did in Vietnam with programs such as the Civilian Irregular Defense Group, Popular Force and Regional Force. Especially since no insurgency has ever been put down without indigenous participation.

The wrongheaded Rumsfeld/Franks plan calls instead for the re-establishment of the Iraqi army. Millions if not billions of U.S. dollars are earmarked for this effort, which will be sheer ecstasy for the same old U.S. contractors who already have their sticky fingers in the taxpayers’ till and the same old U.S. weapons makers who can’t wait to supply this new army with gold-plated gadgets.

But the answer to our soldiers’ prayers isn’t another army built to re-invade Iran or Kuwait sometime down the track.

The grunt-friendly school solution would be more coalition troops supported by local paramilitary units tasked with taking out the G’s. Highly-motivated freedom fighters drawn from the 20-million-plus Iraqis would be eager to put a real end to more than 35 years of repression and finally govern themselves in peace and prosperity as a free people.

With this scenario, Iraq can become a true model for the entire Arab world and – as L. Paul Bremer III, the occupation administrator of Iraq, recently said – “a beacon of freedom and justice.”

[Have an opinion on this column? Sound off here.

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THE ONE NEEDS TO CHECK HIS SIX

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Now that Gen. Tommy Franks has hung up his soldier suit, one wonders whether he'll be hailed as a hero or take heavy heat over what’s gone down in Iraq while he was head honcho. Military insiders say Franks might pre-empt the historians with a tell-all that could be devastating to top Pentagon players. Some say the concept for the book depends on which high-paying military-industrial-congressional complex board slots he’s offered versus what the publishers with deep pockets are bidding.

Yep he wrote his book. The good General is riding his cycle. takin care of his ranch, and runnin' his museum here in Sooner country. Basic down to earth kinda' person.

Hack's article is somewhat on target. The good Colonel makes reference to an SF Leader in Iraq, Well, what he suggests, kinda' hit the mark. GEN Schoomaker, was called out of retirement to be the Chief of Staff of the US Army, the same job GEN Franks declined. How that came to be was mixed with lotsa'irony. From what I recall was GEN Schoomaker was visting with another retired SF general, MG William Garrison, at his ranch in the Lone Star state when the call came to recall GEN Schoomaker.

The other mix of irony is that GEN Franks as the CENTCOM commander for a year & half when we reacted to the terrioism that hit us on 9/11. It is obvious that GEN Franks had a distinguished military career, and that this command would be the one he would do like so many us before him had and retire. Rummy had offered him the top job in the Army. GEN Franks like GEN Scharzkopf are Soldiers and Served as Leaders & Soldiers in the foxhole.

The SecDef through the guidance and influence from the WH, for the most part injected all that stuff into Iraq. Now we are going through the entire process of figuring to get it outa' Iraq.

As far as the G's, well that part is over. All that remains is the continuing sect war. That will continue, they have adopted the same tactics influenced by outsiders, terroists.

The col is a true hero he put on the line generals and their minions awarding their selves medals. They are scum just like the generals and their minions covering up the terrorist Hasan as a fellow officer Just burn a few 13 troops and it is Ok