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Dr. Michael Scheuer on the Tragedy of Afghanistan That Didn’t Have To Be

Posted by Brian in News on 16/Aug/2021 12:35

From Non-intervention2.com:

There was never an easier military or diplomatic problem for the United States than post-9/11 Afghanistan. The answer to the problem was clear. With, as always, Marines in the lead, send a quarter-million man ground force with more than abundant aerial support to conduct a c. 15-month campaign of retribution. The job could have been done by early 2003.

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Using culturally familiar strategies to make progress in Afghanistan

Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 7/Jul/2010 17:41

“Panjwayi, Afghanistan: As reports circulate that insurgents may have attacked a nearby unit with rocket-propelled grenades, a Canadian Army sergeant major lets out several profanities. He’s just realized that his soldiers forgot to bring paper plates for the snacks they were going to serve the Afghans.

Rather than helping with the fighting, his unit here in southern Kandahar Province has been tasked with organizing a shura, a meeting of village elders…”

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0707/A-NATO-bid-to-win-the-Afghanistan-war-one-shura-at-a-time

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