Talk:Mission creep

message: ******Probably Update Needed:
Following later history, the following passage may no longer accurately represent a significant viewpoint" 
"There are continued criticisms that the American led coalition should have ousted Saddam Hussein at the end of the first Gulf War after the ease with which the Iraqi forces were expelled from Kuwait."
:Don't kow there, ther have been suggestions that things would ahve been better all 'round if this had been done, since Iran was less powerful then, there was better support for war in Iraq both within the USA and internationally, the USA could claim UN authorisation, and Hussein would have been removed several years earlier.
::Actually, any update should be along the lines of "Damned if you do, Damned if you don't." It was an extremely popular anti-Bush (senior) argument in the 1992 election that Operation Desert Storm (actually the second Gulf War - the Iraq-Iran War being the first) had been a failure because Coalition Forces didn't go onto Baghdad and topple Saddam. Of course, commentators like Eleanor Clift of Newsweek claimed that to be successful, Bush (senior) would have had to install democratic governments in Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. for Desert Storm to have been successful in her eyes - talk about mission creep! 15 years later these same folks have claimed that Bush (junior) should never have attempted to remove Hussein from power. Jmdeur (talk) 12:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

message: The second sentence "Mission creep is usually ...; its outcome never meant to be." is overly long and should in my oppinion be shortened. Understanding the sentence for a newcommer like me is very, very hard.
I hope this is the right place for a proposition like this.
Dte-bavaria (talk) 13:40, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split second sentence in definition 

message: The result was do not merge.
These two terms have the same general meaning. I suggest they be merged into one more comprehensive article. --SueHay 03:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[Scope creep]] into [[Mission creep]] 

message: In software I always heard of "feature creep", and I had also heard of "mission creep". I always figured the latter was some kind of military slang that gave rise to the former's use in software.  But if this article cites April 1993 as the first usage (much later than I would have guessed) I have to wonder.
Using Google's usenet search, the earliest reference I could find to "feature creep" was February of 1993, a few months before the first use of "mission creep" cited by this article.    Using the same methods the earliest mention of "mission creep" I found was from September of 1994. 
Can anybody find earlier references to either term and where they originated? 166.250.37.11 (talk) 16:43, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Mission creep" vs. "Feature creep" 

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message: "The phrase first appeared in 1993, in articles published in the Washington Post and in the New York Times concerning the United Nations peacekeeping mission during the Somali Civil War."  This is not correct. From an article in the Indiana Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania) for June 19, 1978: "... clearly NATO is reluctant to commit itself to too much.  Smith and others have warned of the dangers of "mission creep" - gradually accepting new responsibilities. [...] "Mission creep is defined as taking the first step down that slippery slope and as a result of that creep ending up out of control," Carter said.  NATO's role in Bosnia should be a "very controlled process.""  (source: newspapers.com [subscription])  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plfca (talk • contribs) 11:20, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
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