Temporary Archive: Suzanne Brockmann's Message Board

Not even close. I thought the plan was terrible also. In mission planning you have to cover assumptions, restrictions (something you must or must not do)and limitations (something you can't do with your force)--example: we seized a dam on about day 11 of the war (I did a dam thing!) to insure that it remained intact. It was a helo insert, so an assumption was we would have a helo. A restriction was we had to take it without damaging it and a limitation was we could only hold it for one cycle of day light. Now look at the campaign plan-- we made some very bad assumptions: We would find WMD, We would be treated like liberators.
We had ridiculous restrictions--must seize Bagdad quickly and we just ignored the limitations of the force. In other words the plan was just bad---had it been turned in as a term paper at West Point I think it would have flunked---