Soldiers in a live fire exercise at Fort Drum. Members of the 10th Mountain Division were first sent to Afghanistan in 2001.
Posted on 02/15/2006 10:28:46 PM PST by Plutarch
FORT DRUM, N.Y. — As the 10th Mountain Division prepared to go to Afghanistan this month, its Third Brigade ordered boxes of the Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid's seminal book "Taliban" to be issued to officers along with body armor, high-tech seven-layer cold weather uniforms and ballistic-grade Oakley Blade wraparound sunglasses.
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The 10th Mountain, one of the Army's best units, is developing a military ethos that goes beyond the tactics of past conventional warfare to a new age of ideological war.
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Counterinsurgency warfare, the 10th Mountain soldiers now believe, is as much a political problem as a military one; as much knowing how to win over the population as shooting bad guys.
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Soldiers in a live fire exercise at Fort Drum. Members of the 10th Mountain Division were first sent to Afghanistan in 2001.
It is about hearts and minds, smart warriors know how to balance violence, fairness, and compassion, to win the population to their side.
10th Mountain is so good, some people confuse them with Marines
Nah, that's 7th Light that everyone tries to be!
Just trying to see who was still awake....THEY ARE ALL GREAT
While my heart goes out to them I hope they keep it in mind that most of the people they encounter would kill them for being infidels. We are at war with Islam itself.
I'm starting to think we should isolate these countries and let them suffocate themselves rather than expend American lives on fighting fanatacism (when there are other ways to defeat it).
If they insist on living in year 800 while the rest of the world moves on we should help them by removing all technology and refinements brought about by non-Muslem accomplishment. Let them get their electricity, clean water, pure medicines and fuel from Allah.
Hearts and Minds doesn't work with a cult-like belief system that supresses both with dictatorial suppresion. They'll only learn through deprivation - but I suspect most of our Western Culture neighbors don't have the nads or intelligence to acknowledge that and see it through.
Quite a shame, considering how they'd treat us if the shoe was on their foot.
"If they insist on living in year 800 while the rest of the world moves on we should help them by removing all technology and refinements brought about by non-Muslem accomplishment. Let them get their electricity, clean water, pure medicines and fuel from Allah. "
That's it. They use all our non-Muslim creations against us, all the while condemning us and the western society that spawned the creations. Put up a big reservation and herd them into it.
Gotta convince Russia, China, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, though.
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