Iraq in the Context of American Military History

Victor Davis Hanson chronicles our past military blunders and determines that most of the wars the U.S has been involved in since our nation's inception started under dubious circumstances, involved bad intelligence and were fought by ill-equipped troops in the beginning.

...what is missing from the national debate over the "worst" (Iraq) war in our history is any appreciation of past American military errors—political, strategic, technological, intelligence, tactical—that nearly cost us victory in far more important conflicts. Nor do we accept the savage irony of war that only through errors, tragic though they may be, do successful armies adjust in time to discover winning strategies, tactics, and generals.

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