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Kelly,
I believe you are wrong. I believe the war planners knew EXACTLY what they were up against. When Gen. Franks asked the developers to put together their plan, they weren't hampered by lack of understanding. They were hampered by time.

No one is suprised by the fact that they are operating primarily in urban environments. There may have been disagreements at to when it would happen and who they'd be fighting, but one way or another everyone planning knew that in order to occupy the country it was going to require a heavy amount of urban warfare.

The problem is, you can't transform an organization overnight. In a sense, Rummy was partly right. You have to use what you have. Where he's wrong is that they didn't have to go then. Knowing the type of combat they would face, they could have delayed the start of the war until those pieces were in place.

Instead they choose the need to act quickly over the need to have all the required tools. You are now seeing the result.

The problems of combat in Iraq are no shock to anyone with have a brain. They simply chose to press on in spite of the lack of propoer training and equipment. It was a case of "act now, think later".