"
A better, and more sane approach, is to embrace the concept that war is
a conflict of minds. There are two sides. For every change in approach
there will be counters mounted by the opposition. In the case of Iraq,
that opposition was extremely difficult to beat since it was organized
along the lines of
open source warfare.
This organizational structure gave it a level of innovation,
resilience, and flexibility that made it a very effective opponent.
Given this, the simplest explanation for the outcome in Iraq is that we
were just beaten by a better opponent (the Israeli's seem to be getting
this, why can't we?)." (
John Robb)