#2 The best bet would be to set up a mercenary army under US auspices, that would provide "high end" support to the Afghan Army, but only on request.
What this means is a clear understanding that if they are called in, they will kill ALL the bad guys, and everyone near them. So they should only be called when an Afghan unit is under threat of annihilation. If the Afghan unit can just break off and leave under heavy enemy attack, it should.
In other words, this leaves it up to the Afghan army to fight its own battles, but prevents the Taliban from ever having a battlefield victory. They may capture terrain for a while, but that's it. |