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Originally posted by Jimbo
The Army is trying to get a picture of how the Iraq insurgency may play out.
One of the questions TDI will look at is whether casualties "tend to peak at
certain points during the course of the operations; and whether one can
determine by comparisons of Iraq data to some or all of the other
operations, if the casualties in Iraq will decline over time, increase over
time, or remain at a steady state."
The Army is also trying to get a feel for the events that either increase or
decrease the number of casualties in a guerrilla war. "Assemble basic
narratives of each of the guerrilla wars in an attempt to identify those
major events or turning pints in each of the wars that resulted in a
downturn or upturn in the casualty pattern," the notice states.
"The project will provide unique insights to the Army leadership and to the
analytical community [on] casualty estimation in guerilla conflicts, and
specifically the Iraq war," it adds.
-- Thomas Duffy
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This is absolutely blows my mind, as if this has never been done and it is almost as if they have no idea that they have the expertise in house to do what they want to hire an outside agency to do. This is so frigging typical, let's get someone else to tell us what we really should be doing so when it is adopted we can place the blame on a faulty study and not have to stand up and be counted for fullfilling our own responsibilities and doing the job for which we are being paid. I can almost predict the outcome of the study. The conclusion will read, " The results of this study show that the DOD has once again fallen victim to mistakes revisited and not lessons learned."
Jack Moroney