LONDON, March 27 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The U.S. and British occupation forces in southern Iraq are locking horns over the most appropriate military strategies, reporters embedded with the occupation forces said.

The divisions were reported after the invaders sustained gross damage and fatalities as the war entered its eighth day, Al-Quds Press news agency reported Thursday, March 27.

The reporters said talks about harmony and mutual coordination between the Anglo-American occupation forces in the military operations are just a façade and propaganda to reassure the weary American and British public opinion.

"Two British officers are really disturbed by the way the Americans are running the battles, which are aimed at gaining a hasty victory due to the political and media pressures exercised on them nowadays," a BBC Kuwaiti reporter said.

"The U.S. officers keep on saying: Baghdad…Baghdad…Baghdad, which asserts that they want to rush headlong towards the Iraqi capital as soon as possible to leave the impression that the war is advancing by leaps and bounds, heroic achievements are being materialized and that the Iraqi regime will shortly become history," he added.

The reporter said British troops are making their way into southern Iraq carefully and cautiously, fearing that the rush of the U.S. troops towards Baghdad will leave a number of other cities behind them for the Iraqi fighters.

However, some analysts argue that the U.S. hasty strategy is aimed at lowering the morale of the Iraqi fighters given that if they succeeded in taking control of Baghdad, they would easily capture other cities and avoid Iraqi war of attrition.

Militarily speaking, the U.S. strategy, in effect, is risky.

The hasty pace of the U.S. deployment along vast swathes of Iraqi territories would not help the U.S. occupation troops secure their logistics and ammunition supplies.

They, in addition, will be vulnerable to hit-and-run attacks from the Iraqi resistance fighters.

The U.S. strategy is reflected in the words of its Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who keeps saying that the American forces are pushing deep into the Iraqi territories.

U.S. President George W. Bush also told the families of the U.S. soldiers in Iraq Wednesday, March 26, that the U.S. troops had advanced some 200 miles into the Iraqi territories.

Analysts say that the division on the war front also left its marks on the U.S. and U.K. political landscape and would overshadow British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s meeting with Bush in Camp David.

The analysts are not suggesting that the division between both leaders would come to surface.

They, however, expect that the heavy losses sustained by the invading troops would make such division public.

The analysts cited, in this respect, that U.S. and British commanders gave conflicting information in several incidents.