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To add to RL's post above, I've been doing catch-up reading of US News & World Reports, and there was a short Q&A piece with Schroen that caught my attention.
Q: Was America prepared for the war on terrorism?
A: The CIA was ready. We knew what to do. The U.S. military, and I'm not denigrating their activities on the ground, but they were not ready. The Pentagon did nto have a plan on how to go into Afghanistan and fight the kind of war it was going to take--a special operations war to defeat the Taliban.
Hmmm, seems from my outsider point of view that we did pretty damned well 'without a plan to fight a special operations war'.
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