If you were the enemy, what would you do?

I was thinking about the speech last night and how the President said that we were going to add 30,000 U.S. troops (a surge), then pull out of Afghanistan in 18 months. I am not a military leader or anything like that, I just am using a little common sense with this decision.

Let's pretend that it is November 6, 1943 (18 months before the end of World War II). What if President Roosevelt made a big speech on the radio about our troop build-up in Europe. In his speech let's say he told the world that we were going to surge into France (Like we did on June 6, 1944). Then he said we are going to train all the French people, that are in hiding, to take on the Germans the best they can, then we will leave in 18 months.

Now lets add a little information we know now that we did not know then about the Germans (our enemies) at that time. They were perfecting rocket technology, were building a jet powered aircraft, and developing the atomic bomb.

If you were Adolf Hitler and you heard your enemy state; that they were going to surge into possessions you held, then turn over the area to a new rather small French Army in 18 months. What would you do? I think I would have built up every defense I could, not trying to over reach. You would not try to take over more land, you would wait it out. You might even pull back and build up better defences of what you hold. You gain the technology of the rocket, jet, and A-bomb. You could then attack a smaller, more inexperienced army, with much better results in the end.

That is kinda how I see this action by President Obama. I do like the fact that he listened to the Generals in charge and gave them at least part of the troops they requested (eventally). But why do we telegraph our war plans with the enemy? What are they (the Taliban) developing we don't know about? We do not have a monopoly on knowledge, they can learn. It shows to me (and quite possibly the Taliban) that we have an inexperienced leader. A leader that cares more about the political consequences than winning a war. Pray for our boys as the President "stacks the deck" against them.