http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/06/22/pentagon-despair-over-nato-and-afghanistan/ News & Commentary on Warfare, Policy and Counterterrorism Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:02:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/06/22/pentagon-despair-over-nato-and-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-25908 Aercdr Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:32:58 +0000 http://www.captainsjournal.com/?p=1159#comment-25908 Amen to that, when we assumed that we could turn our backs on the south and hand it over to a security assistance force that was not intended for robust COIN, we made the greatest error of the war. IN RC-E where first 10th Mountain, then the 82nd, and, now, the 101st run the show we've given the world a lesson in how COIN is done. The Marines, with their matchless experience from Iraq, are doing the same in the south. Even David Kilkullen has learned a great deal by visiting to see what the US has achieved in the east. Hopefully we will now see this replicated in the south. I just hope that US forces will take over the whole of RC-S and parts of RC W in time to be in place for nest spring. Amen to that, when we assumed that we could turn our backs on the south and hand it over to a security assistance force that was not intended for robust COIN, we made the greatest error of the war. IN RC-E where first 10th Mountain, then the 82nd, and, now, the 101st run the show we’ve given the world a lesson in how COIN is done. The Marines, with their matchless experience from Iraq, are doing the same in the south. Even David Kilkullen has learned a great deal by visiting to see what the US has achieved in the east. Hopefully we will now see this replicated in the south. I just hope that US forces will take over the whole of RC-S and parts of RC W in time to be in place for nest spring.

]]> http://www.captainsjournal.com/2008/06/22/pentagon-despair-over-nato-and-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-25903 Brian H Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:52:47 +0000 http://www.captainsjournal.com/?p=1159#comment-25903 Ali Jalali is almost right. What it's afraid of losing is permission from the home turf Leftists to even pretend to do nasty military things. Ali Jalali is almost right. What it’s afraid of losing is permission from the home turf Leftists to even pretend to do nasty military things.

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