Sadr City and The Folly of Fixed Fortifications
One Utah (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity. – General George S. Patton, Jr. U.S. Army soldiers from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division guard construction of a concrete wall running through the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Baghdad, on Sunday, May 4, 2008. Why is the U.S. Army building [...]











