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Old 2nd Sep 2013, 15:36
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
The political element of war is as important, even more important, than the things that go BOOM when fired.
What exactly will our leaders do for an encore after they flatten the place with TLAM?

Let us suppose that all CW is eliminated. Do they then say 'Job Done or do they have a Plan B?

Over 60 years ago the US Central Staffs wrote a war plan for war with the USSR. It covered every contingency that they could think of from pre-emptive strike, to long drawn out slug fest, to perhaps least bad option of immediate capitulation before the US and her allies had mobilised and were capable of policing and running the defeated nation.

That planning was conspicuous by its absence in Iraq.
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