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| Kandahar Offensive to Target 1,000 Taliban: Report |
| 2010-06-03 |
| [Quqnoos] An estimated 500 to 1,000 insurgents who operate in Kandahar would be targeted during an offensive there, a report says The long-planned operation in Kandahar, the Taliban birthplace, is expected to start this month and will focus on Kandahar city and the farmland around it, and could take from four to six months, the Daily Telegraph reported. In Kandahar itself, NATO will use Afghan government forces to lead efforts to support the local police and legal system. Although the British Maj Gen Nick Carter will command the Kandahar operation, most of the troops will be American and Canadian. Meanwhile, the British forces stationed in Helmand province came under command of a US general as NATO's regional command in southern Afghanistan was split into two commands last month. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Ever sat through a two-hour Presentation where the speaker reads the powerpoint slides to you? And you have the printed PPT right in front of you? This is apparently corporate practice in Japan. When appropriate, in their best high school English pronunciation. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-06-03 23:27 |
| #9 unlike today where the BBC sends messages to the enemy in the clear as well as playing naked propaganda to undermine our efforts abroad |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2010-06-03 16:29 |
| #8 and the media then where on our sides and the BBC was sending out coded messages too partizans |
| Posted by: chris 2010-06-03 15:18 |
| #7 not too mention alot of the soldiers on the Atlantic wall where the younger ones except maybe a few panzer divisions. ALSO the taliban don't care if they die and this gives then time too plant more mines or IEDS |
| Posted by: chris 2010-06-03 15:17 |
| #6 It's still undisciplined. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-06-03 14:30 |
| #5 True chris. However, I do recall reading a debrief of Germans from Normandy during the bocage campaign where they were constantly monitoring the American's undisciplined radio traffic and thus knew what the Americans were up to. It didn't do their morale much good constantly hearing so much stuff was both heading towards them and on top of them. All they could do was keep plugging holes with less and less and still knowing more and more was pounding on their ever thin lines. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-06-03 13:10 |
| #4 at least we can count on the media telling them exactly when the extra troops will arrive and where at at the exact time of day! What happened too keeping some of this shit a secret until go time |
| Posted by: chris 2010-06-03 09:58 |
| #3 it can (or it just feels like it...) Ever sat through a two-hour Presentation where the speaker reads the powerpoint slides to you? And you have the printed PPT right in front of you? Arrrggghhhhhh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-03 09:51 |
| #2 If Powerpoint could kill ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-06-03 09:26 |
| #1 Maybe NATO could use a bar graph or two to keep them focused, too. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-06-03 00:09 |