War Lessons Learned ; Analyzing the Invasion of Iraq

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Foreign observers were mesmerized by the resounding 1939 German victory against Poland in which mechanized formations and air power played a key part. One British observer dubbed the new German approach "Blitzkrieg" or lightning war. The German army was less impressed with itself. Immediately after the campaign, it undertook a rigorous self-study of the lessons learned that was brutally honest and self- critical.

A reader of that analysis who is unaware of the outcome would think that the Germans had lost, rather than won, the campaign. However, the improvements made as a result of that study contributed to an even more impressive victory against France in 1940.

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War Lessons Learned ; Analyzing the Invasion of Iraq

Michael Gordon and Gen. Bernard Trainor have attempted to do the same thing with "Cobra II," their history of the drive to capture Baghdad March-April of 2003. They have succeeded in producing an...

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