Task Force Chosin, Afghanistan SNIPPET: "More coalition soldiers have died in July than in any previous month in the nine-year war in Afghanistan." L SNIPPET: "Strangely, our military leaders rarely talk about the battles here. They urge shooting less and drinking more cups of tea with village elders. This is the new face of war—counterinsurgency defined as nation-building, an idealistic blend of development aid and John Locke philosophy. Our generals say that the war is “80% non-kinetic.”" SNIPPET: "War is not complicated. You have to separate the guerrilla forces from the population and kill them until they no longer want...
