Yeah...
Let’s withdraw to the cities, and make the same damn mistake the Soviets did.
What IDIOT is running this war??
OH... WAIT....
It failed the USA in Vietnam and it failed the Russians in Afghanistan. This is nothing more than a prelude to Obama walking away and declaring victory while the Taliban retake the country.
When you effectively cede the countryside to the enemy and hole up in population centers and re-enforced redoubts the enemy gets stronger and the population knows it is only a matter of time before they are abandoned.
Pakistan, finally, last year, started getting serious about routing out the Taliban on their side, which is what we needed to stop their hit and run - hit us, run acorss the border to safety.
this is what could have driven the Taliban out of the Kunar Provence (the Korengal is in the Kunar) and the other Provinces on that border.
It would seem, however that our CICINO is more concerned about the Taliban than our troops (his new ROE proves that) -
he’s determined to Vietnamese this war -
At the same time - I am totally demoralized by freepers lack of interest in threads regarding our troops.
If this thread title had “OJ” or “Britney” or such in it, there would be hundreds of posts.
I think I need to take a sabbatical
Obozo is a traitorous B@st@rd.
we should declare the valley a ‘free fire zone’ and use FAE’s
on any nighttime movement .
Y’know what, we’ve been there ten years. We need to start building institutions for the Afghans to be able to keep their country stable themselves, ASAP, so that things dont all go to hell in a handbasket, and we can stop having to use our own troops for everything. Above all, we need to establish a professional military caste which can deal with things in its own way, and is committed to a strong and united Afghanistan.
Among the things required:
1. Education is ZERO in Afghanistan, and moslem Madarasa schools are teaching the people nothing but Islamic Jehad. We need to establish a secular education system. Schools.
2. Colleges.
3. A military Academy (Already done, NMAA is up and running, but we need to expand courses taught there, to include biology/biochem/microbio, leading up to point 4). A staable Afghan needs a balanced and well educated professional officer corps. NMAA will provide it.
4. Afghanistan has been devastated by decades of war. There are zero medical facilities worth the name, and zero medical professionals who actually graduated from a medical school worth the name. Any army which fights, needs to know that it has medical backup available. We need to set up a medical training facility along the lines of the USUHS, a federal military medical school.
We can source the med students from NMAA officers, who have trained in Chemistry/Biology/Biochem/Microbio.
A dedicated and well trained professional medical officer corps will boost morale no end amongst the ANA troops.
5. Cantonments: Secured military cities, where establishments, bases, R&R, and planning can be carried out. More people will want to join ANA when they see the well laid out streets, the peacefulness, and the general order and discipline of these organised towns.
This, is just a start.
this is what got the 4 Navy Seals killed - and the entire helicopter crew - back in the beginning. Because they sent them into the Korengal alone - no other troops or firebases there then. The hills rise up an all side and are thick with Taliban - no one can just get dropped in there unseen...to get sent in there alone is a suicide mission - not that the current CICINO give a damn
Maybe Joe can pull the troops together and help them “win this war”.
What a mess.
I guess this is what happens when you ask for a surge and only get a spurt.
This is a mistake -
Is this what the conservative suckers who supported Obama’s Afghan escalation have to show for it?
We are sooo screwed.
5.56mm
The gist of this report seems to be- we are losing!
STAY THE HELL OUT OF >VALLEYS<,,,DUH!!!
WTF did they think was gunna happen when they gave the
bad guys the high ground and would not give our guys
any fire-support!?,,,
We learned these hard lessons way back in the 60’s...