Not Your Sweetie

Risks of Rumsfeld's strategy becoming apparent, experts say
By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Five days into the war, warnings are surfacing about a potential
mismatch between Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's strategy and the force he
sent to carry it out.

The optimistic assumptions of the Pentagon's civilian war planners have yet to be
realized, and the risks of the campaign are becoming increasingly apparent, say
some current and retired military officials.

The outcome of the war isn't in doubt: Iraq's forces are no match for America and
its allies.

Army Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, vice chief of operations for the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday he did not think the U.S. military
had invaded Iraq with too small and too light a force.