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2014-06-26 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Skidmark 2014-06-26 10:18|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Abu Sayyaf

#1 Flying under the political radar and getting the job done. Time to go...

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-06-26 12:32|| 2014-06-26 12:32|| Front Page Top

#2 18's needed elsewhere is it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-26 12:33|| 2014-06-26 12:33|| Front Page Top

#3 It really started to wind down after the Burnams were freed and the original leaders were all captured or killed. The ASK leadership was originally hard core Islam Mujahedin fighters from the Afghan soviet war. They cane back and found the MNLF to be too soft and set their own priorities. They were more ideologically driven and much more violent. Once the leadership was killed, they digressed into criminal actions, kidnapping etc... I'm sure they will keep small elements for intel fusion and FMF advisors.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-06-26 13:49|| 2014-06-26 13:49|| Front Page Top

#4 This is written by COL(R) Dave Maxwell. We called him Mad Max. He is the only guy I know that was as comfortable in the halls of the war college as he was on the ground in a combat zone, a true scholar warrior. He humored me and mentored me back then. Col "Mad Max" Maxwell, COL Fridovich, and the rest of the team were the architects of the JSOTF-P and the Basilan model. He and the rest are hero's to me and unsung hero's to our nation. These are his comments on the news reports of JSOTF-P shutting down.

My view on this is quoted in the article below.

Three additional comments that are not in the article.

First a better description of the organization and the mission is that this was a special warfare approach to counterterrorism and counterinsurgency. The majority of the units making up the joint special operations task force were special warfare forces that do not have counterterrorism as their primary mission but instead were focused on unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, psychological operations and civil affairs.

Second, one of the most important contributing factors to the success of the operation was that it was built on the foundation of a comprehensives assessment in October 2001 from the strategic to the tactical level conducted by a handful of special operations personnel, including supporting intelligence officers and logisticians. This assessment as well as the continuous area assessment conducted in accordance with SF/SOF doctrine informed the campaign plan and strategy to this day. One important lesson from this operation is the importance of assessment and it is heartening to hear the emphasis on assessment in Iraq from President Obama because although the conditions are vastly different one thing that can contribute to success in Iraq (or determining if success can even be achieved) will be the assessments conducted by the SF soldiers on the ground.

Lastly, when the assessment and recommended courses of action were briefed in October 2001 by then-Colonel now retired LTG David Fridovich, the CINCPAC (we called him CINC back then) ADM Blair asked how long would this mission take and LTG Fridovich said it would take about 10 years or so to achieve lasting effects.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-06-26 23:52|| 2014-06-26 23:52|| Front Page Top

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