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With the U.S. commander in Afghanistan being a former career Special Forces guy, you can expect some new thinking. The first major change was to listen to the troops, especially the brigade and battalion level intel specialists, who collect local information and pass it up the line.
For years, the word has been that the "Taliban resurgence" is nothing more than another drug gang ploy to keep anyone from interfering with the manufacture and shipment of heroin (plus some opium and morphine) out of the country. |