Brigadier General CARTER HAM: This morning at about 0630 local time in Iraq, a mounted US Marine elementoperation near Hadithah was attacked by an explosive device.
Mr. RANSTORP: Well, I think that the assessment by the British anti-terrorism branch before the attack was that it would be some homegrown element's at least part of the operation.
The BUR added two important sets of metrics to previous DOD assessments of future force structure: a characterization of the operational element phases of an MRC and a definition of the forces necessary to conduct such an operation.