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The British Army, according to journalist Simon Akam, went into the ‘wars of choice’ in Iraq and Afghanistan convinced that it was ‘the best little army in the world’. It came out of them, he says, with its reputation diminished, both in its own estimation but also – and importantly – in the view of our American allies whom, embarrassingly, we had hubristically denigrated at the start of the Iraq operation.
There is little doubt that ultimately the British military failed badly in Iraq by ceding control of Basra, in 2007, to the sectarian Shia militias that we had hitherto been fighting.
Ron Sachs
Anyone who s ever orchestrated a residential move knows that coordinating the logistics of leaving one home for another is quite a challenge. There s the packing, the protection of valuables, the hiring of movers, the timing of the actual move itself and then, of course, the unpacking, the sorting of belongings, the hardware store runs followed by more hardware store runs.
But imagine attempting to coordinate all of that for an incoming President of the United States who is moving to Washington, D.C., from another place
while he or she is being sworn in
and while the rest of the government oversees the peaceful transition of power.