6 Reasons Why Wars Go Wrong

An aircraft assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 125 taxis to launch on the first all-female combat mission in an E-2C Hawkeye on the flight deck aboard the USS Carl Vinson in the Arabian Sea, Jan. 25, 2012. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class James R. Evans

Six Reasons Why The Wars We Wage Often Go Wrong -- Jim Powell, Forbes

Drums are beating for a pre-emptive war to take out such nuclear facilities as Iran might have. But considerable caution is in order, because this is basically the same story Americans heard not so long ago, in 2003, to promote the pre-emptive war against Iraq. Although the United States “won” that war, intelligence about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction turned out to be wrong, the killing has gone on for nearly a decade, Sunni and Shiite factions appear to be going at each other again, and with Saddam Hussein gone, there’s a political/military vacuum that Iraq’s larger neighbor Iran is undoubtedly eager to exploit.

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My Comment: There are many reasons why wars can go wrong .... off hand I can think of at least a dozen plus .... but the six listed here are good ones.

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