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To: TimF who wrote (234165)	5/22/2005 2:15:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) of 1575338

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. According to Webster's, the definition of "sustained" means to keep up or prolong. There is no explanation of length or the tactics used that are added to that definition. And that's what the insurgency has done for the past two years. To suggest otherwise, makes you look like you are arguing simply for the sake of arguing. What is going on in Iraq is a sustained offensive. <end of story>

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