Trump wants a Surge in Afghanistan

[JackLuis]

Trump wants a Surge in Afghanistan

The Pentagon asks for "a few thousand more troops" to fight a war that has no end game. 15 years of pouring money down the rat hole that is Afghanistan has taught the Pentagon nothing.

 

[Iceprincess12]

A third world country with unreliable power...unlikely he could blow out a toaster.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Trump wants a Surge in Afghanistan

The Pentagon asks for "a few thousand more troops" to fight a war that has no end game. 15 years of pouring money down the rat hole that is Afghanistan has taught the Pentagon nothing.

It's excellent real life training. Get to drop large ordinance not normally used. Next generation of officers have real battle experience. Casualty rate is quite low. Not much use having the biggest armed forces in the world if you don't get to play with it. Keeps terrorists focused on a different locale than launching coordinated and effective attacks against the home country. Forward defence type strategy. Fight in someone else's land.

 

[JackLuis]

It's excellent real life training. Get to drop large ordinance not normally used. Next generation of officers have real battle experience. Casualty rate is quite low. Not much use having the biggest armed forces in the world if you don't get to play with it. Keeps terrorists focused on a different locale than launching coordinated and effective attacks against the home country. Forward defence type strategy. Fight in someone else's land.

It cost a lot to keep shelling out for failure though.

 

[Hard_Rom]

It cost a lot to keep shelling out for failure though.

Meh! Its just money.

 

[domroger]

It cost a lot to keep shelling out for failure though.

That does not matter ,his "friends" will make money out of it .

 

[Hard_Rom]

Real tragedy of Operation Medusa is that Taliban may soon win back ground hard won by Canadian troops

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/operation-medusa-gains-lost-1.4105506

Twelve Canadian soldiers lost their lives to drive the Taliban from the Zhari and Panjwaii districts adjacent to Kandahar city. At the time it was the most significant land battle ever undertaken by NATO. Close observers of the war believe Taliban fighters are poised to target both Zhari and Panjwaii as part of a plan to stitch together the whole Pashtun heartland of Afghanistan under their oppressive control.

The most recent (April 30) report of the U.S. government's Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says the Afghan government "controls or influences" only 59.7 per cent of the country's districts, "a nearly 11 percentage-point decrease from the same period in 2016."

Since that report came out a week ago, another district, Qala-e-Zal, has fallen.

"These rural areas are extremely important to the Taliban. They're following a classic Maoist insurgency model of using the rural areas to attack the populated centres."
*which is how they defeated the Soviets*