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2016-05-10 Afghanistan

Special Forces In Afghanistan Say There's No Clear US Strategy

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-10 06:33|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 A solid 'strategy' requires planning. The Obama regime's planning goes no further than January 2017. After that it's a Republican problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-10 06:41|| 2016-05-10 06:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Not necessarily a Republican problem. But not an Obama problem.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-05-10 07:28|| 2016-05-10 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Before you can judge a strategy you have to understand the aims/goals.

With our current clique I have no problem believing that things are proceeding as desired.

Posted by AlanC 2016-05-10 07:44|| 2016-05-10 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 "Milling about smartly" is a valid strategy when your leadership is deliberately absent.

Posted by Pappy 2016-05-10 10:11|| 2016-05-10 10:11|| Front Page Top

#5 In Naylor's 'Relentless Strike' he talks about SOF frustrations in Iraq toward the end of the Obama involvement. The effort was seen as futile by those brave lads going out on door-kicking or snatch missions each day. Stay-behind assignments never were very popular.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-05-10 10:25|| 2016-05-10 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Obama's strategy in Afghanistan ended in 2009...it was worst case - a political strategy focused only on a number and the optics that he was perceived to act like he cared about the war that mattered... Even now I am unsure what we accomplished in 09...although I am very clear about the consequences of the buildup and the fact that we pay the Taliban for the privilege of fighting them.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-05-10 10:46|| 2016-05-10 10:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Our SOF should only train their SOF and let those guys train and assist their own.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-05-10 10:50|| 2016-05-10 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Because "flexibility."

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-05-10 13:32|| 2016-05-10 13:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Kinda like the US strategy in Iraq... Syria... Libya... Pacific...

Posted by DarthVader 2016-05-10 15:05|| 2016-05-10 15:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Before you can judge a strategy you have to understand the aims/goals.

Hmmmm. How about protecting the poppies?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-05-10 18:55|| 2016-05-10 18:55|| Front Page Top

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