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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (233992)5/21/2005 10:29:33 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1575272
 
An offensive is not determined by the length of the battles but by the overall intent of the initiator and the actions that support that intent.

Agreed which is why those short attacks are offensives, but they are not a sustained operation. The insurgency itself has been sustained but it has had few offensives, none of which lasts for long either when you look at any battle in isolation, or when you consider a series of coordinated battles as part of a specific operation. For the most part even battle is not a good term. All but the biggest fights initiated by the insurgents (and maybe those as well) are more accurately called skirmishes, but if you like to use the term battle I won't really object.

Its actually worse for us that they don't try a sustained offensive. If they did we could smash it, but they are smart enough to know better. The tactics they are choosing have a better chance of success than any attempt at a sustained offensive by them would have.

Tim
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