Militarythinker

Hello everyone,

I just joined the board tonight but I am eager to post my first topic so here it goes:

Simply: What would you have done for the Iraq campaign?

Given that you were assigned to invade Iraq using the United States military as your resource, what strategy/ies would you use? How would you address the difficult task of fighting a terrorist force while trying to restore peace? What would be your initial push into Iraq be like? What preliminary action and preparation would you have done before actually invading? What steps would you have taken to deal with civilian cooperation/resistance? Also are there any type of units that do not currently exist in the U.S. military forces that you think would have been helpful in this campaign? If you do (I know I do) then what would they be and how would you have gone about creating them if it was up to you?

While my actual knowledge of the terrain, enemy strength and position is limited at best I have a few ideas of what I would have done. I am only a first year college student and I don't claim to be any sort of expert. Most of my information and ideas come from reading military history and baisic exposure to modern tactics and units from shows, books and a bit of research. From this post I hope to see if anyone shares the same ideas or perhaps learn better ones. I also hope to learn more about what the military situation was and is in Iraq. I am sure many of you know about details that might effect how I would have planned to do it so I am going to wait until there have been a few responses before I post mine. I also want this to be a lengthy discussion. I don't think you can have a too detailed plan. I want to hear about all of it. If you haven't read my "welcome to the forums" post I explain a lot of where I am coming from and what exactly sparked my interest in this subject.

Hope you guys have as much fun with this one as I am.

-M