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To: unclewest who wrote (881)	5/11/2003 8:02:24 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793927

It was Colonel John Boyd's "OODA Loop." We got inside Saddam's time cycle. d-n-i.net This description jumped out of that Newsweek article at me. " Harrell watched as a blue icon--a 12-man Army A Team--moved to confront several red icons in Kurdish northern Iraq. "Sir," a nervous aide asked. "You realize those icons on the map are brigades?" meaning --that a dozen Americans and some Kurds were about to attack a few thousand Iraqis with tanks. "Yeah, I know," said Harrell, shrugging. "They're doing OK." He could afford to be nonchalant because he knew the A Team could call in airstrikes from some of the roughly 1,000 U.S. aircraft loitering over Iraq. (As it was, the A Team still had to do some hairy, close-in fighting: one sergeant took out three tanks with shoulder-fired Javelin missiles and his squad mates finished off the last attackers with shotguns.)" Think back a few years, and how astounding this is becomes almost overwhelming. We would have never had this confidence with the Afghan experience.