Has the campaign in Iraq already begun?

A thought-provoking article over at StrategyPage:

America's conquest of Iraq will be a gradual process, not an event, and has probably begun. Air patrols and related bombings have increased significantly and are hitting areas and target types which were previously ignored. Some of the latter attacks, i.e., on underground fiber-optic communication cables, require such precise targeting that it is likely the bombing was guided by covertly inserted ground troops using laser target-designators.

The plan here resembles the story of boiling a frog - increase the water temperature quickly and the frog will hop out. Increase the temperature slowly and it will sit there without realizing what is happening to it. American military operations, and ground force levels, in Iraq may gradually increase until surrender is only a formality.

Posted by David on December 20, 2002 10:03 AM