As the new Baghdad security plan gets underway — otherwise known as phase I of the surge — State and Defense Department officials are again at odds over the division of labor for the “build” end of the “clear, hold and build” strategy. And that’s something that, according to the military officers in charge of implementing the surge, could doom it from the start.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181543