Brooks' Law

Thom Shanker of the Times published this depressing little bit in the New York Times about the idea of sending more troops to Iraq.

"But given the current debate, the question becomes how would more troops help in Anbar? And for how long? The answer is, they would help, in the short term. But many military analysts also warn that sending in another division — anywhere from 12,000 to 15,000 troops — could create more problems. An extra division could flood the zone in Anbar, a province the size of Louisiana stretching from the west of Baghdad to the Syrian border."

As I was reading that, I sadly began to realize that the War in Iraq has become the Mythical Man-Month of modern warfare.