Just wow.
Now if they'd figure out how to have a platoon waiting to ambush the Taliban who systematically and with regularity ambush our platoons on their way back to their firebases after a patrol to the villages.
It is a set in stone pattern.
Platoon walks to village.
Taliban now knows the path and time they will be walking back
Taliban set up ambush.
Our troops have suffered the highest KIA and WIA’s due to the PREDICTABLE song and dance.
How about end-running them and setting up an ambush team along the route BEFORE the platoon goes to the village - and then ambush the ambushers?
Wouldn't take long to break that pattern.
Do the powers that be really want success?
The Brits ran into this problem during thr Boer War. Afterwards, they always took a different way back. Dunno if the terrain in Afghanistan allows that.