As I said, disregard those TV colonels who washed out of General level tacitcs. The New Army uses very different (yet old, Sun Tsu and Guderian) strategies. This article describes it. BTW I'd call Franks an old school new school typa strategist.

An exerpt...

The "pause" was a pause. Backup by the US 4th ID was reasonably regarded as critical by Franks, who is no cowboy, but a meticulous, careful and patient planner. It was also a ruse, preparing for the wheel east, driving through Iraqi positions from the flank. This has brought US forces to the immediate outskirts of Baghdad in 48 hours - a move that "informed" French military observers writing in Le Monde (Monday) estimated might take another month of fighting. The French, it seems, are a bit hard at learning.

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