This article caught my eye on Sunday: War experts advise strategy overhaul: Authors of downbeat report fear current course risks cataclysm by James Sterngold San Francisco Chronicle 12/11/05.
It's about a paper called "Precedents, Variables, and Options in Planning a U.S. Military Disengagement Strategy from Iraq" by W. Andrew Terrill and Conrad C. Crane.
Regular readers of Old Hickory's Weblog may recall the title from this post of 10/13/05 in which I linked to that paper and commented on it: Iraq War: An optimistic view.
I also linked to another, earlier paper by Terrill and Crane (which appears to be the 2003 paper also referenced in Sterngold's article) on 10/24/05 in Iraq War: The failure to plan for the occupation.
And I returned to that earlier paper and commented on it in Iraq War: It's not as though they weren't warned ... 06/11/05
And on 12/06/05, I referenced an Op-Ed by Terrill: Iraq War: The problem of permanent bases.
I'm not claiming a "scoop" here. All of these papers had been posted on the Carlisle Barracks-Army War College Web site for a while when I linked to them.
There's a lot of great stuff like these papers out there. I'm happy to see the Chronicle making use of them. I hope more reporters and bloggers will discover sources like this.
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