Posted on 01/02/2008 9:11:23 AM PST by Lukasz
Warsaw - Poland is to accept more responsibility in the international presence in Afghanistan, Poland's Foreign Minister Bodgan Klich said in an interview published Wednesday in the daily Dziennik. According to the plan, Poland wants to takeover responsibility for the province Paktika, bordering Pakistan.
"The Polish national flag will be more visible," Klich said, adding that the goal was Polish military "autonomy" in the province. The United States would still continue to be responsible for guarding the border with Pakistan.
Klich is planning to visit Washington to win US approval for the move, the report said.
Currently around 1200 Polish soldiers are apart of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. The Poles stationed in the three eastern Afghan provinces of Ghazni, Katia and Paktika. The Polish contingent numbers is backed by the US 82nd Airborne Division.
Same here
They say that Reagan’s little war in Grenada showed that our various branches of service couldn’t communicate well in combat. Even our “inefficiency” helped us in that respect — every branch of the services wanted a piece of the action in Grenada — so a hodgepodge force was sent in. Command and control was a disaster — and got upgraded and presto — less than a decade later we rolled over Iraq in the first Gulf war in an almost perfect performance. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the countries that may have to stand on their own against real threats are the ones helping us in the WOT. Australia, Britain, and Poland.
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