The Military In Iraq And Libya
The Military In Iraq And Libya
We Flipped Tiles To Points Of Instability Where There Had Been Stability
Kevin A. Sensenig | August 5, 2014
In both Iraq and Libya, the U.S. military (along with foreign policy) flipped tiles to points of instability where there had been stability.
I would have negotiated from the standpoint of stability, and this stability was in both the U.S. and Iraq (in 2002), and in both the U.S. and Libya (in 2010).
Where there had been stable, trained, dedicated military in place in both Iraq and Libya, sufficient for protection against invasion from a neighbor — these were replaced by unstable situations.
How that happened could be the subject of structure-and-detail review and analysis.
For now let me suggest that for instance in Iraq Saddam Hussein and his government (and people) may have needed an electric grid upgrade in certain regions — much more than war. Something the U.S. was certainly expert in. Then an upgrade to their oil infrastructure, to bring it up to modern efficiency and reliability.
Points of friction or fault could have been factored out.
That simple.
The Libya question is here.