[kellychaos]

I agree that most soldiers bristle at the mention of "urban warfare" as it is the most difficult to fight and our army is not really equipped to handle it for an extended period of time. It is simply not how army doctrine has structured to fight and to make it so would take a massive overhauling ... i.e. money. While it's true that the logistics of taking over a couple hundred thousand troops is a nightmare that takes time, I don't think that Rumsfeld had much support from the military brass in doing things on the cheap and in a hurry. I think that the military brass both knew what was needed and considered the threat low. It's all about Rumsfeld's "my way or the highway" intimidating style of leadership. His own advisors were afraid to speak against him. Maybe this is too much of a "conspiracy theory" type thing but doesn't it seem like the Iraqi military kind of laid down for this war in anticipation of an urban setting in which terrorist can thrive? They knew they couldn't beat us "head to head" but maybe ...