Somewhere down the track we need to objectively look at Iraq and Afghanistan, specifically the conduct of the wars there and LEARN for the next round – has anything really been achieved with these two long drawn-out campaigns or should the approach have more simplistically been “…just as soon as the invasion was done, we should have killed Hussein (and his sons), hand the reins over to the next guy, then said ‘don’t make us come back’….“? The enduring ‘principles’ or truisms of COIN/IW are: Take the time to identify the core issues. Equally it is not about NOT using force: if there is no potential for the application of force, then there is probably a limited military role in the campaign. KERRY O'BRIEN: How well did you know your enemy by the time you left Iraq? Counterinsurgents should prepare for a long-term commitment. KERRY O'BRIEN: The impression I get from the book is you felt that the American military effort was far too heavily focused on the pure military, that the infrastructure was a kind of second order issue? “Happy news for the Left was that U.S. soldiers were demoralized and the war was being lost… Happy news for the Right was that there was no insurgency, then no civil war; we always had enough troops, and we were winning hands-down, except for the left-wing lunatics who were trying to unravel it all. more recently, Iraq and Afghanistan. There was no Phase Four Plan and the incipient plans that existed were not embraced. First of all, the pilots are viewing the scene on a much smaller screen…Secondly, a pilot’s primary concern is with flying his helicopter and the safety of his aircraft. Follow @Jim_Molan Part One of this series looked at what President Trump’s recent Afghanistan policy announcement told us about the President and his administration. Take an equal amount of time to define your own national objectives. The Canadian National Post has published Canadian Forces comment in response to Michael Yon’s criticism this week of security arrangements around an important bridge that was damaged in an attack near Kandahar this week. This is one of the keys of stability, counterinsurgency and irregular warfare campaigns and deserving for a section in its own right over the current single paragraph. Attempts to meddle in the regional status quo generally foster than mitigate instability, not the longer term effects of food aid programmes in Africa or the emergence of consumer cultures in the South Pacific where economies can just not support them. The book concentrated on his experience as Chief of Operations in Iraq during 2004–05, and contained some criticism about Australia’s capacity to engage in military conflict. General Petraeus has confirmed intelligence that al Qaeda seems to be shifting its primary focus back to Afghanistan and Pakistan. briefly to some intense disagreements with other US generals during your year there, including one where your boss General Casey had to pull you and David Petraeus apart. Most road checks in the area are carried out by Afghan National Police while sweeps for improvised explosive devices on the major highways in Kandahar are done by a U.S. Army Stryker brigade or by U.S. combat engineers attached to them.. …a growing frustration on the part of some Americans that NATO has put four U.S. battalions under Canadian command in Kandahar…the Americans answer to a Canadian who answers to a British major-general who in turn answers to an American. 2) the stakeholders (‘the people’?) I guess that ‘Be First With The Truth’ applies as much in the scientific community as it does elsewhere…, I saw the same STRATFOR article on Mexico as a failed state that Curzon comments in STRATFOR GOES CLINTONIAN ON MEXICO and had intended to make similar comments today (great minds…?). Bridge failure heating up: TF-K has, for all intents and purposes, blamed RC-South for allowing the bridge to be attacked on Monday, resulting in the death of a US soldier and serious damage to a vital bridge. If we do nothing, then the Americans will always come in and solve our problem for us, and I suspect that's what's going to happen in the future in Afghanistan.

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