The Arms Race in Iraq

Wretchard over at Belmont Club has a perceptive post on the ongoing arms race in Iraq and how it ultimately works to the advantage of US forces.

One of the problems in the way the war is reported -- one that fuels the intelligence services cant that terrorists are going to school on our forces in Iraq -- is that we learn a lot about the evolving strategies and techologies employed by our opponents, and little about the far more effective countermeasures being used by US forces.

In part this is the old "ten-foot Russian soldier" syndrome -- the tendency of intelligence agencies and the military to portray the enemy as far more formidable than he really is. In part it is the reluctance of American military officials to talk about what we are doing. In part it is the simple gullibility of the MSM which is far more concerned about guild rules and standards than in getting the story and getting it straight. In part it is simple distortion to serve political ends.

Whatever the reasons, there are tremendous gaps in the public's understanding of what is going on in Iraq. People like Wretchard [not his real name] help to fill in the gaps.

Check him out here.