Thankfully this is still pretty much how we do things in most of Afghanistan.
I hate seeing the conventional Army throw away the gains it made through blood sweat and tears. We needed the armor and the heavy army for the invasion. Now SOCOM should be allowed to take over and finish the job. > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:21 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: A Self-Defeating War > > >1. Small teams of MI and SF set up mobile operating bases in the local > >communities. > > > >2. These teams recruit and train a local defense force. > > > >3.* a. > > The camps are expanded to allow those that work for the SOF teams > families > >to move into a protected haven. They are also given better food, > and > >access to material goods, like cable tv and the internet. > > > >4. In camp mayoral elections are held. No parties are allowed. > > > >5. After 6 months state-wide mayoral council is held to elect state > >executives and legislature(possibly similar to county, maybe even tribal > >government). > > > >6. After 6 months state assembly meets to define and elect the federal > >executive and legislature. > > > >3.* b. > > Parralell to the gorwth of the civil infrastructure, the mlitary, > civil > >defense, and law enforcment arms at local state and federal level > are in > >the process of being trained by the U.S. Military, the CIA, the FBI, and > the > >State Departments DSS, not to mention "security aid" from USAID. > > > >4. Battalion sized federal army elements begin patrolling with crew > served > >weapon support the largest weapon allowed. No explosives other than > >grenades and AT-4s. Small Iraqi national specially trained MI assets are > >planted back into the community, as moles, to root out the insurgency. > > > >5. By this point the local SF teams have built a company or more of > local > >irregular forces. They are based, with their families, out of the mobile > >operating bases. These groups begin patrolling out of their strongholds, > >and work to secure surrounding towns and villages. A tight reign is > >required on these forces as they are not as highly trained as the regular > >forces are. > > > >6. A year or so in, firefights have dropped quickly. Government exists > >from the local to the central level. Security is primarily done by > native > >Iraqi forces, with American Special Operations quick reation force(s) > (QRFs) > >stashed around the theater for support, advice, training and assistance. > > > >How does that sound? > > > > > Actually it sounds quite good. This is what each successful anti- > insurgency campaign has done, going back the last 60 years to Greece in > the 1940's, Malaysia in the 1950's etc. What has astounded me since the > conflict has started is how much the military command and their political > master have forgotten these basic lessons - most of which were learned the > hard way in Vietnam. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:213865 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
