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2010-02-09 Afghanistan
U.S. Army Launches Attack on Taliban Stronghold in Afghanistan
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-02-09 10:24|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Godspeed, valiant warriors. May your superior skills and wise leadership lead you to victory.
Posted by Lone Ranger 2010-02-09 11:51||   2010-02-09 11:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup, once the Talibs prevent people leaving, it is time to go in. At that point you have done all you are going to do by rattling that sabre.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-02-09 12:34||   2010-02-09 12:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Finally the light dawns. This is an effort to create a "Fallujah, part 2". As you may recall, Fallujah was a masterful scheme to concentrate a dispersed enemy and annihilate them. Fallujah was a "roach motel" of the enemies most dedicated fighters, and was a terrible disaster for them.

First of all, the local population was completely hostile, yet give time to evacuate, and the enemy given time to prepare static defenses of little value on the modern battlefield.

The battle itself was arranged first with a major kill zone in a railroad yard and industrial park, into which the enthusiastic enemy would flow, only to be massacred in the absence of civilians.

This was where the enemy met the "drug crazed, laughing Marines", who in fact were laughing at the ease by which they slaughtered enemy fighters. Shooting fish in a barrel.

Once these enemy had finally learned not to advance into a KZ, then the Marines began a methodical, around the clock clearing action, rotating fresh Marines forward every few hours, with a steamroller effect.

The enemy were rapidly degraded with fatigue, heat exhaustion, hunger, lack of supply, and lack of any medical support.

The end result was half of the enemy killed, and the other half captured. A crushing defeat. 3,000 of their best gone. The US lost 95 killed, 560 wounded.

Hopefully, if this is a repeat, the US will suffer even fewer casualties.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-02-09 15:31||   2010-02-09 15:31|| Front Page Top

#4 And given the turnstile ROEs we have, let's hope the bad guys fight to the last man, according to all the witnesses.

Do we have enough veterans from Fallujah there who know what to watch for as far as enemy tactics go here?

I'd like to see Amnesia International proactively start blasting the Taliban for this gross violation of the "rules" of war.
Posted by gorb 2010-02-09 16:43||   2010-02-09 16:43|| Front Page Top

#5 WORLD NEWS > US MAY SEND TROOPS TO NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN [boost GERMANY's forces].
Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-02-09 20:04||   2010-02-09 20:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't the revised ROEs say that we can't fire back if there are civilians present? Of course, since the Taliban don't wear uniforms, they are by (leftist) definition civilians.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2010-02-09 20:05||   2010-02-09 20:05|| Front Page Top

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