When I worked with the commander to lay out that the war in Afghanistan was a shooting war, the truth resulted in his firing when he asked President Obama for troops. His replacement did get those troops but was also fired for accurately ridiculing the DoS
I went inside the war in Afghanistan for Men's Journal to understand the effect of Human Terrain Teams. I was attacked by the organizers and that weird cabal of right wing bloggers for telling the truth. War is wasteful War is confusing. War is imperfect. mensjournal.com/features/afgha…
The concept of "counterinsurgency" is not new but American was looking through the wrong end of the binoculars. We were the insurgents, not the taliban. We were going against the natural flow and structure. This wears all great nations down. marxists.org/reference/arch…
Alexander was the best model to follow (which is what the CIA did in 2001) to empower and appoint satraps to run each of the five ethnic or geographical regions until the nation was stable enough to inject investment and increase trade. cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476…
