In his new book, he argues that the coalition is making the same mistakes about Iraq as Britain made in the American War of Independence.
Some well-argued points too!
General Sir Michael Rose wrote:
In 1775, George Washington took command of a ragbag army of American insurgents and took on the might of the British Army. Through a brilliant campaign of ambush and indirect attacks, he finally succeeded in defeating the greatest military power in the world, and won America its independence. Today it is the USA that is the world's dominant superpower. When they entered Iraq in 2003 they made the same mistakes that the British made over 200 years ago: they underestimated the popular hostility against them, and believed they could fight a widespread insurgence using troops trained for conventional warfare. They are beginning to learn, as the British did, that sheer military power is not enough.
General Sir Michael Rose wrote:
Over the next five years I came to see how great the similarities are between the policies being pursued by America in the present Iraq war and those of Britain in the eighteenth century. Not only do the same political and military imperatives apply, but also George III's inability to recognize what drove the American colonists to rebel against the British Crown is exactly matched by George Bush's lack of understanding of the motivations of Islamic extremist terrorists.
He goes on to compare the involvement of French Insurgents (coming to the Americans' aid) in the 1770s to Syrian and Iranian insurgence in the current war.
More info Here - worth a read