Andrew Krepinevich
Andrew Krepinevich
Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr. is a defense policy analyst who currently serves as President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments...
iraqis situation tend view
As long as there is no government, Iraqis tend to view the situation as one of occupation.
provide ready security
If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.
casualties change comparable effort insurgency later level month mounting violence year
The insurgency is still mounting an effort comparable to where they were a year ago. We do something we think will change things, but a month or two later casualties and the level of violence are back to where they were.
history written
The near-real-time history being written hasn't been particularly kind to Rumsfeld.