Posted on Jul 22, 2020
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: What Afghanistan Can (Re)Teach Military Planners about Conflict...
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"Afghanistan is once again demonstrating that conflict termination is a messy, uncertain, inherently political, and consistently violent process. The tumult of the experience in Afghanistan will hopefully re-teach planners how difficult it is to bring conflict to a politically acceptable close when the adversary is in a position of strength. As a result, it presents an opportunity to close a crucial gap in our collective military education by enabling a better understanding of how the military can satisfy a government’s revised political objectives when victory is no longer possible."
Blessed Are the Peacemakers: What Afghanistan Can (Re)Teach Military Planners about Conflict...
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Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) - Afghanistan
Warfare
Strategy
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Anyone with even a modicum of historical reference to fall back on would know that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires for a reason. We did well to get in and get it done. The part we missed was getting the hell out...
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Thank you for the great share sir, have a wonderful afternoon sir
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We will not win a military victory in Afghanistan for these reasons:
- We take terrain and quickly abandon it. That means the Taliban has the opportunity to own the land and the people.
- The Taliban is decentralized in a very large country. We are essentially playing whack a mole.
- The people will not take matters into their own hands to rid the country of the Taliban. The people dislike the US and the Taliban. Most Afghans withhold valuable intelligence that could help us.
- The Taliban will not decisively engage us in large pivotal battles.
- The Taliban don't fear us, and we don't have the ability to make them stop fighting.
- An important facet of counterinsurgency is providing security. We can't provide security to the tribes and villages. It is impossible to build a nation when we cant protect the people and institutions from the Taliban.
- Is the Afghan military prepared to fight the Taliban?
- Will the Afghan government piss off the populace?
Possibly a huge consolation is the # of Taliban is not near the size of a conventional army.
- We take terrain and quickly abandon it. That means the Taliban has the opportunity to own the land and the people.
- The Taliban is decentralized in a very large country. We are essentially playing whack a mole.
- The people will not take matters into their own hands to rid the country of the Taliban. The people dislike the US and the Taliban. Most Afghans withhold valuable intelligence that could help us.
- The Taliban will not decisively engage us in large pivotal battles.
- The Taliban don't fear us, and we don't have the ability to make them stop fighting.
- An important facet of counterinsurgency is providing security. We can't provide security to the tribes and villages. It is impossible to build a nation when we cant protect the people and institutions from the Taliban.
- Is the Afghan military prepared to fight the Taliban?
- Will the Afghan government piss off the populace?
Possibly a huge consolation is the # of Taliban is not near the size of a conventional army.
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