Maybe Iraq needed to precede Af-Pak

FINE PRINT: Military Moves High-Tech Tools to Afghanistan, By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, June 23, 2009

Read about the JIEDDO payoff. Another example of how Iraq-before-Afghanistan may prove historically to have been quite crucial in forcing levels of institutional change (Iraq being too important to lose, thus the necessity of evolution that now benefits us in the class quagmire that is Af-Pak).

Comments

[Louis Heberlein]

'Iraq-before-Afghanistan may prove historically to have been quite crucial in forcing levels of institutional change'

Seems like that thought passed my mind some time before.

[Tom Barnett]

Blueprint for Action, five years ago.

Not particularly welcomed then.