WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Defense Secretary Robert Gates unleashed a storm on Wednesday by criticizing NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, saying they were ill-prepared to fight an insurgency.
"I'm worried we have some military forces that don't know how to do counter-insurgency operations," Gates told the Los Angeles Times. "Most of the European forces, NATO forces, are not trained in counter-insurgency."
Troops mainly from Britain, Canada and the Netherlands are deployed in southern Afghanistan bearing the brunt of a fierce resurgence by the Taliban Islamic militia, which left around 6,000 people dead, including some 220 international soldiers.
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the BRITS 'don't know' COIN??
What a freaking idiot.
The Canadians finally get into the fight in a meaningful way & the first thing we do is crap on them. sheesh.
After all the opportunities his pedecesor blew, we don't have cause to talk squat.
Except to the froggies & jerries the others who'll send "soldiers" but won't allow them to man up to the fight.
What a freaking idiot.
The Canadians finally get into the fight in a meaningful way & the first thing we do is crap on them. sheesh.
After all the opportunities his pedecesor blew, we don't have cause to talk squat.
Except to the froggies & jerries the others who'll send "soldiers" but won't allow them to man up to the fight.
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2d Bn U.D. for 75th Ranger Regt Assn
2d Bn(Ranger)75 Inf 1975-'77
RS 9-76
Former mentor to RANGER XCrunner.
"I am well aware that by no means equal repute attends the narrator and the doer of deeds” Sallust ‘The Catiline Conspiracy’
funny, but I happen to be reading a book called Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife, Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
the Brits managed to win, and we left...
A-stan went pretty well under Spec-Ops, primarily SF. then the conventional Army got involved finally. heard some not so flatering things about my Div. CDR and how he planned/ran Annoconda.
reading the book, and compairing how things are going here, now; well, I'm taking notes as I read...
the Brits managed to win, and we left...
A-stan went pretty well under Spec-Ops, primarily SF. then the conventional Army got involved finally. heard some not so flatering things about my Div. CDR and how he planned/ran Annoconda.
reading the book, and compairing how things are going here, now; well, I'm taking notes as I read...
A Co & HHC 3/75 '93-'98.
RS 10-94.
200 meters of green shit next to a river in the desert does not qualify as a "Crescent of Fertility" -me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, one meter wide and two meters long" -Lazarus Long
RS 10-94.
200 meters of green shit next to a river in the desert does not qualify as a "Crescent of Fertility" -me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, one meter wide and two meters long" -Lazarus Long
