Ticomaya
Quote:Kosovo turned out "a heck of a lot better" in your view because it was a sanitary bombing campaign ... no ground forces, and no occupancy. But it has also been heavily criticized and controversial, and through the campaign only around 50 Serbian aircraft were destroyed, and only 13 tanks/armored vehicles.
It stopped the ethnic cleansing which was the reason for the war.
Ticomaya
Quote:Iraq II was a tremendous victory ... militarily speaking. Winning the war was not an issue ... winning the peace has proven more difficult, but that's more a function of the determined insurgency than the war plan of Franks.
The planners of Iraqi war did not plan for what happens after the war because they thought they would greeted as liberators. They ignored intelligence which told them of all the difficulties they would have after removing Saddam Hussien. Furthermore, it was not a "tremendous victory, the forces of Iraq just went into hiding and started fighting from there and have been doing it ever since.
Anyhow, I imagine you are going to have a spin for this, ahead of time, I know I am going disagree. My only point was that Franks is hardly an unbiased (or credible) source to ask about insights into the Iraq war since he was part of the planning from the beginning.