Counterinsurgenterrorism
Obama's new policy for Afghanistan tries to steer a middle course.
By Fred Kaplan
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The new element on the military side of Obama's strategy is the deployment of an additional 4,000 troops—the 4th brigade of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division—for the sole purpose of training Afghan security forces. This is unusual. A combat brigade does not generally go to a war zone just to train the local forces. (Several senior Army officers don't like the idea at all.) The brigade will split up into small teams—of a dozen or so soldiers—each of which will be "partnered" with an Afghan unit, to train and "mentor" their forces in the field.
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I have seen this kinda of thing discussed here before, but breaking the 82nd up into what looks like squads and partnering them with an Afgan unit...
Can a 27+ year old 11B E6 Staff Sergeant be given a course on Combat FID and then just pull it off?...I imagine the QPs would say no, but mother Army seems to be saying yes.
Are we trying to block a hole in the dam with our pinky finger?
Scimitar
(DISCLAIMER: Any comparing of the 82nd Airborne to a pinky finger is purley a creation of the readers imagination)
