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	Why the surge failed

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6-20-2007 5:47 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/da47163d-95fa-447f-ba75-7fbe73632039/CEA4B649-9148-410F-B550-8D617BDBB3C4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/20/eye_on_iraq_why_the_surge_failed/7864/" href="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/20/eye_on_iraq_why_the_surge_failed/7864/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.upi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/20/eye_on_iraq_why_the_surge_failed/7864/">On Jan. 19, we predicted of the "surge" strategy, "Its success seems unlikely."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/20/eye_on_iraq_why_the_surge_failed/7864/">force levels in Baghdad and around Iraq were a little higher than those originally announced. But they have remained far too few to do the job required of them.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/20/eye_on_iraq_why_the_surge_failed/7864/">Baghdad is a city of up to 7 million people</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/20/eye_on_iraq_why_the_surge_failed/7864/">U.S. combat brigades</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/20/eye_on_iraq_why_the_surge_failed/7864/">remained far too few to make significant inroads into Sunni insurgent violence.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/06/20/eye_on_iraq_why_the_surge_failed/7864/"> Current U.S. Army counter-insurgency doctrine, which Gen. Petraeus co-authored, explicitly states that at least 20 troops are needed to secure every 1,000 people in the general population. That level of force ratio would require 140,000 U.S. troops concentrated in Baghdad alone -- equivalent to current U.S. force levels for the entire California-sized country of 28 million people. The immediate troop "surge" remains less than one-tenth, or under 10 percent, of the minimum force levels that current U.S. military doctrine requires as necessary.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CEA4B649-9148-410F-B550-8D617BDBB3C4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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