sounds to me like he pulled a Bergdahl
I don’t think so.
‘Before long, Gant and the 17 men in his command didn’t even need to request assistance when things got hairy.
When there was word that a suicide bomber was headed to Mangwel, it was the local mosque that sounded the alarm over its loudspeaker.
“We did not ask them to do this,” Gant says. “That’s a pretty remarkable thing to happen in an Afghan village. I didn’t have one checkpoint in Mangwel, I had 4,000.”’
This guy met one smart tribal leader and did a Dances with Wolves. You can’t win wars that way because each tribe is different. It would be a good way to pull a social psychology “motivate the sheople” type of infiltration. Like the communists are doing to America.
And he had the blessings of the general who created COIN and established the wonderful rules of engagement (just google that) that have gotten so many of our boys killed, Petraeus...”He didn’t get the chance to fully realize this initiative until 2010, when Petraeus, now in command of the US forces in Afghanistan, ensured that Gant would go back to test out his “native” theory, charging him with supervision of “village stability operations.””
He was not on the side of the Taliban, he was a social worker who knew how to fight. Would have gotten paid more as a social worker.