[RLK]

Great, let them all come together, out in the open, forming up into large formations...larger than we have ever seen before..

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It won't happen. They are fighting smart, employing guerrilla warfare.

[Jeff Head]

sometimes spending days travelling on foot through the desert

Well, if hundreds, or maybe thousands of them are doing this...the result will be the same.

[NutCrackerBoy]

They are fighting smart, employing guerrilla warfare.

The Afghani government soldiers themselves are sure to be better equipped. And do I understand correctly that more and more of the "foreign" peacekeeping in Afghanistan is being turned over to Germans and others?

For various reasons, if it is US/UK alone, we won't be able to sustain in both Afghanistan and Iraq and ... wherever. However, if several countries are commited long term, and yes the UN (shudder), to containing this guerilla warfare, I think the experience of the Russians need not necessarily be repeated.