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Originally Posted by Hugh
Not sure how anyone "finishes the job" in an asymmetric warfare scenario (without "instant sunshine" glassing over the whole country)?
No one has ever successfully occupied Afghanistan (the book discusses Iraq as well), due to the terrain and tribal society - when the tribes are being defeated, they just fade back into the mountains, when the occupying troops lessen, they come back out again.
There is a really good book about this called "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins that I would recommend to others for an insight into why it's a losing proposition, whatever anyone does. |
Britain has been successful there twice before and we could have been again. One thing that shocked me is
a lot of the taliban fight for them because the pay, $5 a day is much better than being a farmer, we could have paid them more not to fight, there's a worldwide shortage of morphine we could have crippled their heroin operation solving that issue at the same time, I also remember one mid-high ranking taliban leader handing himself in to claim the reward, I'd like to think these things were looked at and taken on board by people that mattered