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Beating The Taliban By The Book - Afghanistan
August 2008 Can America really beat the Taliban using a textbook? We take a look at the practice behind the theory, as Charlie Company attempt to follow the instructions laid out in the Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Seen as "a modern military textbook for winning hearts and minds and outwitting the enemy" the book also known as the COIN Manual, was written by some of America's finest military minds. So can the Americans really win by the book? The Manual states: "Counterinsurgents often achieve the most meaningful success in garnering public support...with activities that do not include killing insurgents". Yet for all the activities that exclude killing, this is a war. The American troops are at their best when under attack and the other side of war is reveling in the death of your enemies. "It's like the Superbowl; or like Manchester United and Chelsea, we're cheering for our team," claims one soldier laughing and celebrating with his comrades as Taliban are killed. The Manual also states: "Executing COIN operations is complex, demanding and tedious. There are no quick solutions." Few know this better than the soldiers who have been here for over a year and those forced to chop down trees with axes after their chainsaws fail to work. "It's almost like all of this stuff that we're doing is worthless." America expects its soldiers to be nation builders as well as warriors but are they simply asking too much?
Author:journeymanpictures
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Komentarze
| people are not killing one another. if just the so called NATO and israel stop attacking innocent people | lisalov4 |
| I was praying last night that our angels will bring peace all over the world. Can we all do that pray for all our angels around the world for Peace! Please! All of you! | leecaroline1234 |
| A Western policy maker may listen to Bach, sip a little wisky or perhaps a cigar and then plot a text book war? now then tell me one thing, would you trust this guy? considering the fact the war is the most dynamic and unpredected thing in the world which why it's called war or unpredetable human nature as you never know what happen next. when will we stop killing one another and most importanlt why? | Pakhtoonzai |
| I don't think this guy knows how to tighten up a chainsaw chain. | whodank |
| your computer was invented in america "ass hole" Oh yes we inhabit the moon and both poles of the planet. I could write a book of american achievements. We only utilize the sweat labor found in your country. For you have no real ingenuity or true intelligence in your gene pool Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh | vette0009 |
| Death is death u dont ever come back If i had it my way we would turn your sand box of a country into a sheet of glass... DC2 Rich | azayzel62 |
| We the american people are supporting our troops. We do as we are told by our commanders I find it twisted that you cant understand that. Kids are dieing no matter what color or race The only difference is that you behead our captives and yours get treated like gold. Let me ask you this You dont find it odd that you kill 2-10 of our proud young men and we kill 50 of u at a time. Numbers will win you kill americans just for being there and you use bombs onkids in the name of allah. Stupid. | azayzel62 |
| where are you from aboldrees? | rickstevens101 |
| i cant stand to watch this pig americans faces..they just look like pigs. thats the best way to describe them. | AboIdrees |
| well said my friend well said that is why the Americans will never win at least the freedom fighters are fighting to free their land from foreign aggressors who come to their land, bombing their people and disturbing the peace. | aurora2k |
| KBR is nice to have so they do jobs like this so that soldiers don't have to...but KBR charges the shit out of the government even when they don't have to do much such as replacing a bent flag pole on camp bondsteel - $10,000 I shit you not. Or being stuck in the mountains for 8 hours because we HAVE to use KBR to tow vehicles so we had to wait for the lazy fucks | NolanMGI |
| i can't believe they get second rate chainsaws, you would think with all that money and being the so called best army in the world...*shrug* | DrCherryPie |
| these ass whole are brainless they die for nothing atleast the afgans die for allah and may they enter paradise: | mushakal |
| Apparently you've never studied economics. | airman317 |
| There is little private employment because everything is made in China. Americans Make nothing but shit. Really they produce nothing. | silverton7777 |
| The rich whites or educated ones and and some token blacks work for contracts for defence companies and the rest of nation lives mostly on government aid. Its a high stardard but all barrowed from China and Europe T - Bills. What muslim must do is drive cost up. I live here in florida and man the blacks live third world. The whites say the get handouts but the whites have the all government jobs. | silverton7777 |
| Lets hope theirs an IED with all their names on it. Oh not all of support your invasion but its all going end. America is going down National Debt 12 trillion. | silverton7777 |
| this is why a'stan will take forever.. because people get rich sending bs equipment.. im surprised they were even given chainsaws... spark plugs are a rare thing as well | mikeeed |
| saywow2002 Your vocabulary has not improved and neither have your ideas. Us 'morons' listen to reasons and make up our minds that's why, after reading what you've said, I pretty much demonstrated in my previous postings that you couln't reason your way out of cardboard box if you tried. You call people names and hope that makes you sound smart - think again - but don't hurt yourself doing that. | comitern |
| The US Army certainly have good intentions, but their efforts at activities other than combat are amazlingly ham-fisted. Hopefully that will change as training and the Army's culture changes (but I doubt it will). | gunnermac70 |
| "to make himself instant coffee. he was a sick fucker" lmao | blackhawlk2262 |
| What happened to power saw's ,you can save time by 100 times,and save your company ,so many troops to cut trees and no body to pull security??!!,hand held gasoline power saws will cut a tree in under 30 seconds..take care buddies. | andayss |
| You morons you simply believe whatever the politicians tell you, you dont realize they can lie for their own profits.. | saywow2002 |
| Its sad but i have to say technology have grown so fast in such a short of time. Just sad they use most of the technology for war. When we choulda use it for making better life. I guess this is why government wants to steal freedom. | truehunter |
| I think james brown said it well enough. | EBOWARRIOR |