By Linn Grubbstrom - Talk Radio News Service
Implementing ideas contained in a 2008 report put out by a top Washington think-tank would protect the U.S. from the next big terrorist attack, said a top military official on Friday.
The report entitled, “Measuring Progress In Conflict Environments (MPICE),” provides the DOD with a framework of ideas aimed at bringing stability to war-torn nations, like Iraq and Afghanistan. A co-editor of the report, Col. John Agoglia, Director of the Counterinsurgency Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, said it would have sped up progress during the Iraq War.
“I think we would have cut the stabilization pace in Iraq by at least half, if not two-thirds,” he said via telephone from Kabul during a discussion held by the United States Institute of Peace on Friday.
“Hopefully for folks who are sitting there for the next 9-11 - hopefully there won’t be one, but let’s not kid ourselves, there probably will be - they will have a process by which they can sift through what’s going on, identify what are the causes of instability that resulted in the conflict that we’re in and articulate to the policy-makers what challenges we face, what resources it costs and more importantly, how much time it will take,” he said.
The full report is online and can be found by clicking here.