[nikos1121]

Pray for people like Jim Gant. That he may return to the USA some day and be part of many returning veterans who will lead us.

[beaversmom]

[beaversmom]

Thanks for posting the article. Very interesting.

[Straight Vermonter]

Good stuff.

[mazda77]

As you were, Major. Carry on.

[Tainan]

This is the SF mission as originally charted. It will work;but it is a not a short-time plan.
The question is - Does the US have the fortitude and long-term commitment to do the mission?

Sadly, history has not shown this to be the case.

[Sherman Logan]

Gant and his men were soon fighting alongside tribesmen in local disputes

Not sure that's recipe for long-term success.

Champlain assisted the Hurons against the Iroquois and as a result got the French into long-term hostility which arguably lost them North America.

Magellan did the same in the Philippines and got himself killed.

Cortez, OTOH, used locals against locals and then crushed them all.

But picking sides in local disputes we by definition don't really understand is not by any means always a successful tactic.

[DoorGunner]

This is, I bekieve, the first time I have fully agreed with the WaPo.

DG

(I hope hope no one tells the Pushtuns about the Montagnards.)