When McChrystal arrived in Iraq, and did everything he could to accelerate the planning system he inherited, the number of raids his troops conducted each month increased from ten to eighteen. When he created his intelligence system, that number shot all the way up to three hundred.4
I mean, yeah. They increased their raids. But we’re those raids accurate? Did they do more harm than good ultimately, because the populace was terrorized? Maybe not. But praising an increase in raids just because it’s more — and not necessarily better — isn’t great.
