US Commander to Recommend More Trainers to Afghanistan
On November - 25 - 2011
Even as the White House is readying its exit from Afghanistan, there is still the urgent need to build the Afghan security forces. Involved in that task are ISAF trainers. Now with the withdrawal plan accelerated, NATO will need more:
Marine Gen. John R. Allen, who took command in Afghanistan last summer, wants 1,700 more military personnel — mid-level officers and senior enlisted troops leading hundreds of new advisor teams to be assigned beginning next year to Afghan units battling the Taliban insurgency, the officials said.
A similar approach worked in Iraq in 2007 and 2008. Hopefully there will be similar success here, but the situation is even more complicated.
wsieruk Says:
When President Obama ordered the U.S. military to start pulling out of Afghanistan sooner then the military generals considered advisable. This is contrary to rules of war set down by Sun Tzu in the BOOK OF WAR which he gave the “Five essentials for victory.” Point five has been thus disregarded. Which reads “He will win who has the military capacity ans is not interfered with by the sovereing.”
Posted on November 26th, 2011 at 10:43 am
Caratacus10ad Says:
Maybe the US feels a total victory in Af-Pak is not in its real interests…
After all, what exactly is Af-Pak offering the US now, with the elimination of Bin Laden?
The US has most certainly made a very clear point to the Paks by now…
What really is left to achieve?
The United States surely isn’t in the business of having vassal states in the middle of a nowhere dirt-hole?
Thats the traditional preserve of the Paks after-all!
Posted on November 26th, 2011 at 6:31 pm