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From: gwh%sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
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Subject: Re: Lessons Learned
Keywords: lessons, grenada, panama
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Date: 10 Jan 90 03:28:32 GMT
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From: gwh%sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (George William Herbert)
In article <12694@cbnews.ATT.COM> terryr@ogicse.ogc.edu (Terry Rooker) writes:
>
>There have been other incidents, but the point is that the US made
>much better *military* perparations and didn't consider all the
>factors of the operation.  In addition it seems that it is yet another
>failure of the US intelligence community.  (Maybe with peristroika we
>can get the KGB to give us some pointers on running HUMINT operations:-)
>

Don't ask the Spetznaz.  Last time They tried a Coup-de-main [the technical
name for the decapitative overwhelming strike used in Panama] it left them
in the Afghanistan fiasco... :-)


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