There are any number of reasons why an army of bankers, bureaucrats, consultants and analysts failed to foresee the strength of the ground-level resistance to the Gresik sale.
IR You say that armies owned and operated by the state cannot fight bloody ground wars abroad because of political resistance at home.
"But there was resistance to change on the ground, " he says.
Such a body could also face fierce resistance from rebel groups fighting on the ground.
In 1989, he built the operation from the ground up, bucking bureaucracy, legal tangles and resistance from unions and existing emergency services.
But rebel efforts to gain ground in and around major cities including Damascus have been met by stiff resistance and increasingly destructive air strikes.
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If there were heavy forces, such as the 4th Infantry Division, on the ground in the north and advancing south towards Tikrit and Baghdad, Iraqi resistance would be divided, enabling allied units moving up from the south to do so more quickly.
As Republicans struggle to find common ground with Democrats over the budget, conservative leaders have generally been unyielding in their resistance to tax increases on most wealthy Americans, one that defies American political history and budgetary realism, to the point of making a deal impossible.
The U.S. personnel on the ground handled themselves with the utmost professionalism and he was killed in an operation because of the resistance that they met.
The operation was ordered after Major General Robin Brims, commander of British ground forces in Iraq, decided the situation had reached "tip point" - when organised resistance in the city was about to collapse.
Mr Obama, meanwhile, has expressed hope that Republican resistance to his proposals will be slightly less reflexive if he is re-elected, on the ground that he cannot run for president again, and so presents a less tempting target.
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