Sun Tzu and the Iraq War

Hopefully, this series of blogs will examine the current war in Iraq through the lens of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War". This series will focus solely on comparing the application of our military power in Iraq against the fundamental military principles explained in The Art of War(AW). It will only consider factors that have a causal relationship with our effectiveness to wage war. Determining when to go to war is tasked to our elected representatives, not our military. However, once the decision to go to war has been made, the military campain must be conducted according to sound military principles. War is cruel and war is cruelty.