(New York Post)- Ralph Peters Saddam had a classic 20th-century, industrial-age war plan. But our forces fought a 21st-century, post-industrial war. Governments and militaries around the world just learned: Don't fight the United States. Period. This stunning war did more to foster peace than a hundred treaties could begin to do. Saddam's principles were: Delay your enemy, attrit his forces, trade space for time, harass his supply lines, and husband your best forces for a mighty counterattack. Yet the Iraqis - and the Russian advisers who helped plan their defense - don't seem to have advanced beyond mid-Cold War thinking. They clearly had no sense of the battlefield awareness, speed, precision, and tactical ferocity of America's 21st century forces.
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