What are you talking about?
All the current military precence are doing are exposing your soldiers to IED,s on a daily basis.
There are very few direct engagements with Taliban forces at this date in The Stan and the engagements that occur are more often then not with local bands of criminals.
When the Taliban comes out to play they make sure they have every advantage in the fight.
When coallition forces are denied their gamewinner (CAS) the odds are stacked even further in Taliban advantage.
Can´t get civilian facilities up without basic safety.
Can´t get basic safety up, without fighting a war.
Can´t fight a war with your hands tied to your nuts.
As for counterinsurgency into Paki. Not happening in any greater scale then it currently is.
No one, and I mean no one wants another pissed off nation in that region.
Especially not one with nukes blowing in the wind.
My 2 cents.
//KJ.
There are very few direct engagements with Taliban forces at this date in The Stan
and the engagements that occur are more often then not with local bands of criminals.
When the Taliban comes out to play they make sure they have every advantage in the fight.
When coallition forces are denied their gamewinner (CAS) the odds are stacked even further in Taliban advantage.
Can´t fight a war with your hands tied to your nuts.
Not true.
(True from personal experience, since I am not you..Maybe you got another take.)
We have to deal with those guys too.
(Those are the guys most active at this time, even though they tend to claim AQ at every chance they get.)
Yup, they do. Smarter, not harder. Then again, we're not allowed to do that anymore, it's not "fair."
Well, not entirely true. CAS is certainly a force multiplier and in some situations/circumstances it can definitely mean the difference between success and defeat or even life or death, but this is not the case all time every time. Can we effectively engage a large enemy force without CAS? Yes, it's possible, been there, done that. Not fun, but possible.
Besides, there's always arty . . . . . . oh wait, they took that too.
We (active task forces) need to reevaluate our TTPs though, for sure.
(Never said you couldn´t win a fight against a larger force without CAS and Arty. I said the T,s make sure they have every advantage.
BTDT too. But this is not a pissing contest.
This is getting the facts on the table.
And anyway you cut it, when the excrement hits the perverbial fan you are pretty glad you can call in a few hogs, and you know it.)
And there's the rub. When you won't let over half of the allied forces go on the offensive and you lock the rest up in ridiculous ROEs, it gets harder and harder to kill badguys.
(Again, ISAF is another mission.
The real mission, the one the ISAF mission have been leaning on is not entierly, but almost gone.
Why? The US president said it was over.)
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