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 studied and written about counterinsurgency, has been executing 
 President George W. Bushs surge strategy and is due to report soon 
 on Coalition military progress"or the lack of it"in Iraq]. This to me 
 is showing how the U.S. Army adapts itself. It was at one point 
 overwhelming force wins out"I paraphrase"but events have shown its 
 more complicated [than that], and youve seen the U.S. Army adapting. 
  
 And armed forces can only adapt within the parameters set for them by 
 the politicians? In a democracy, thats how it has to be. Rightly. [In 
 Iraq] much, therefore, is on the shoulders of the politicians who set 
 defense policy. 
  
 (c) 2007 MSNBC.com 
  
  
  
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