“Our overall aim is to defeat the insurgency which means we must gain and then maintain the support of the Afghan population,”
And the idea is to let them know we are walking around targets is really going to win their hearts and minds.
Here’s a news flash. You are never going to defeat the insurgency pussy footing around trying to win friends with the Afghan population. The enemy has one tactic, and that’s to terrify. The only way to stop them is to kill them dead.
“The enemy has one tactic, and that’s to terrify. The only way to stop them is to kill them dead.”
Ditto this!
Why should our troops serving in hostile foreign locales be subject a weapons safety rule any more stringent than police, sheriffs, prison guards, FBI, Drug and Alcohol Enforcement personnel, secret service, and so many more? And why does our government decide to go to war, and then let the politically correct wusses insure that we can only lose it. Our strategists are morons and cretins, our intellectuals are still in remedial ed., and our politicians are idiots. That said, have a nice day.