Paul Wolfowitz, Rummy’s deputy, conceded that the war planners may have underestimated the hardiness of the heartless Iraqi fighters.
This admission is galling. You can’t pound the drums for war by saying Saddam is Hitler and then act surprised when he proves ruthless on the battlefield.
Lots of good insight here on how the war plans may be putting troops in harm’s way in even greater risk.
I noted a similar notion here.
I thought the idea of war games was to try unexpected ideas in a virtual theater, rather than finding out in reality that you’d made dangerously wrong assumptions.