I've never heard of a 500k Afghanistan plan. But Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni ran a series of exercises that determined it would take 400k troops and 10 years to

I've never heard of a 500k Afghanistan plan. But Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni ran a series of exercises that determined it would take 400k troops and 10 years to successfully occupy Iraq, defeat an insurgency, and leave a stable government that could stand on its own. Rummy's plan, backed by Armitage and Wolfowitz, was for 170k. And no plan for civilian transition. And it worked -- they won the conventional war, and botched the rest.