[A friend of mine sent me this email with these comments about American military weaknesses. I am in general agreement with his comments. As a note, the guy who sent me this is an ex-Parabat (Parachute Battalion). Despite American technology, the Middle East is quite a hell hole, and one has to be prepared for resistance over a very long period of time. Jan]

The americans have a number of weaknesses militarily
1) Reliance on technology
2) Americans are suffering from œnever again Vietnam thinking and
are casualty shy “ very much so.
3) Conflicting Commercial and government agendas, lets not even start with the US intelligence communities™ involvement.
4) An overactive belief in human rights (no place for a conscience or human rights in war unfortunately, if it holds or has held a weapon against you it dies!)
5) No real drive to win any war they have been involved in convincingly except Gulf war 1! (go in hard, finish it and get out). The US went into Kuwait/Iraq nailed those Iraqi pr*cks to the floor and then hung around trying to fix the sh*t “ that they created “ up. Either occupy the country or get the f*ck out of it!

I read a very interesting book about the Vietnam SEA war, written by a Chopper pilot, that the americans fought in and lost. One thing that is quite obvious from the book is the almost criminally stupid way in which the americans fought that war. There are unfortunately parallels that can be drawn with respect to the Bush war in SWA that SA fought in!

Regards,
LS.