Posted on Sep 14, 2020
19 years into War on Terror, overstretched AFSOC at a crossroads
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Our military is not going to decide who wins the war. The people of Afghanistan will decide who wins the war, perhaps there might never be a conclusion to the conflict. The country is too big to subdue the Taliban.
Strategically thinking. If the Taliban don't lose the war they kind of win because we could not crush them.
Strategically thinking. If the Taliban don't lose the war they kind of win because we could not crush them.
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GySgt Gary Cordeiro
Once they understand that jihad is the internal struggle against good and evil (just as Christians struggle) and not as the imams preach that it is against infidels (USA).
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MAJ Ken Landgren
GySgt Gary Cordeiro - The problem I see is the Afghan people don't clean up their own back yard and the Taliban will continue to run amok. The government needs the help of the people. I am not saying this is a solution. I think in the 60s there was an insurgency called Shining Path in Peru, and they were very violent and brutal. The government armed villagers. When Shining Path attacked villages, the villagers would fix them with their weapons and the regular army come in to finish off the insurgents.
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GySgt Gary Cordeiro
Afghanistan his a high rate of illiteracy, therefore cannot read the Koran. The imam can say whatever they want and it is taken as “Gospel”.
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The task doesn't change, The standard doesn't change. It's the Conditions that change; and it is the responsibility of the leadership to adapt to the changing conditions
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