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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-usa-idUSKBN1AI2V6quote:WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's doubts about the war in Afghanistan has led to a delay in completing a new U.S. strategy in South Asia, skepticism that included a suggestion that the U.S. military commander in the region be fired, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Grab that Honestly though the deep skepticism over the military's ability to achieve a victory in Afghanistan and weariness to continue the war is the only positive thing Trump has going for him in my eyes.
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The eternal cycle of firing a guy for not winning a war, even if they were confident, yet only ever hiring someone who is confident that they can win the war, the war that is nearly older than the troops being deployed to said war.
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OhFunny posted:http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-usa-idUSKBN1AI2V6 lool, I'm a fan of these endless and deliciously detailed leaks myself  Let's see what else is new in Afghanistan? Ambush Hits NATO Convoy In Afghanistan, Killing 2 US Service Members Islamic State bombs Shiite mosque in eastern Afghanistan This attack reportedly killed 29 people. IS pushing the sectarian angle as hard as ever I see. The Taliban have also released footage taken immediately after seizing the district of Jani Khel   They also had images of half a dozen government trucks and piles and piles of ammo boxes. Looks like the Afghan army left in a real hurry, if they escaped at all.
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Squalid posted:lool, I'm a fan of these endless and deliciously detailed leaks myself WTF is the thing on the bottom right, a 16th century hand cannon? Maluco Marinero posted:The eternal cycle of firing a guy for not winning a war, even if they were confident, yet only ever hiring someone who is confident that they can win the war, the war that is nearly older than the troops being deployed to said war. War Machine may be an unimpressive movie, but it is a good documentary.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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IS and/or the Taliban are now slaughtering Shia civilians  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/dozens-afghans-killed-remote-sar-pul-province-170806180610109.html quote:Mohammed Zaher Wahdat, the governor of Sar-e Pul, said that "as many as 30 to 40 innocent people... were brutally shot and killed" in the province's predominately Shia village of Mirzawalang after Taliban fighters captured it on Saturday.
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blowfish posted:WTF is the thing on the bottom right, a 16th century hand cannon? Not that I would know, but it well could be considering some of the other stuff that's turned up in Afghanistan. E: OhFunny posted:http://www.wmur.com/article/1-us-soldier-killed-2-wounded-in-southern-afghanistan/10261692
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-mattis-says-u-s-close-new-approach-afghanistan/quote:WASHINGTON — After months of sometimes heated internal debate, the Trump administration has almost reached a decision on a new approach for fighting the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday. He gave no hint of what the strategy would look like. I hope the decision is not the cyber-punk privatized mercenary occupation option 
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Squalid posted:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-mattis-says-u-s-close-new-approach-afghanistan/ Oh hell yeah. The US is championing something amazing. Before we could sell bullets and guns, but gently caress thst. Lets sell trigger pullers remember from the militsty Kids, No gun bomb or otherwise can fire without a grunt to pull the trigger. I swear to god, the Uber of PMCS is coming. Afghsniatan will be the testing ground for exporting lease equipmebt. Eric Prince has a fleet of attack helic90tersband trabzport craft. Just wait till Private corps start owning Naval vessels larget than frigatws.
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https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/899355247101046786 We'll know tomorrow. Although I expect Trump to go off topic. edit: CBS is reporting 4,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. OhFunny fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Aug 20, 2017 |
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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/899355247101046786 didn't they already agree to 4,000 additional troops? Honestly I doubt we're going to get anything of consequence tomorrow.
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/902976745263030272 Well well well. I wonder what the real number of contractors is?
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That's weird. I wonder where the extra troops were hiding
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Squalid posted:That's weird. I wonder where the extra troops were hiding Based on what I've learned from GIP, probably in the portajohns, jacking off.
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Squalid posted:That's weird. I wonder where the extra troops were hiding Previously if a troop was over there for under 120 days (IIRC) they didn't have to be counted in the total number.
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https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/905445576799608835 https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/905446820276568065 https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/905447713189322752 U.S. general in Afghanistan apologizes for highly offensive leaflets: https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...m=.6c28518cba79
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FourLeaf posted:https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/905445576799608835 Does the US military not have a PR guy.
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Or a design guy? That flyer looks like a grade schooler made it with MSPaint.
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blowfish posted:Does the US military not have a PR guy. Donald J Trump
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VitalSigns posted:Or a design guy? It probably was, this meme is popular among servicemen and I'm guessing for a reason 
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Does anyone remember there's a war going on in Somalia? https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2017/09/africom-hits-shabaab-with-3-precision-airstrikes.php AFRICOM hits Shabaab with three Precision Strikes posted:Since the beginning of June, the US military has announced 13 strikes against Shabaab. The targets have varied. A June 11 operation hit a Shabaab command center and logistics node. A July 4 attack targeted Shabaab fighters as they massed for an attack in the south. A July 29 airstrike killed Ali Muhammad Hussein, a senior Shabaab leader, in a strike on the Mogadishu Attack Network. Al Shabaab has responded with at least 32 car bombings that have killed at least 242 people. There's a useful map explorer behind this link That lets you check out US strikes in Somalia by year and review their targets. Does anybody think the US has an exit strategy for Somalia or do the strategic visionaries in DoD plan on bombing it for another decade? Lucky for them I don't think anybody ever bothers to ask. Afghanistan hasn't had much news lately, or at least nothing remarkable. The government and Taliban continue trading districts. The Taliban have grown remarkably bold in their movements in the past several years, showing little fear of airstrikes during and after operations. This is illustrated in this video of one unit ambushing a government convoy. https://www.facebook.com/longwarjournal/videos/1697215420288611/ I assume this just means NATO is no longer committing the kind of air assets necessary to respond everywhere they are needed. I wonder if this will change as the Syrian conflict winds down?
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Lightning Lord posted:It probably was, this meme is popular among servicemen and I'm guessing for a reason I refuse to believe that the boobies satellite in Under Siege 2 isn't real.
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VitalSigns posted:Or a design guy? Get the CIA dorks that design poo poo like an octopus snatching the globe, at least they know how to make something look cool instead of completely rear end backwards dumb if you're even trying to intimidate someone.
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/909902367235215361 Seems there's been a cut in the number of additional troops to Afghanistan.
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https://twitter.com/PaulGottinger/status/909475099786534912 Double posting, but some good news! Don't need to ride in a helicopter to cross the street anymore!
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VitalSigns posted:Or a design guy? Or anybody who speaks Arabic or knows any loving thing at all about Islam? Squalid posted:That must be really annoying for the locals. When have they ever mattered in any of this? Orange Devil fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Sep 19, 2017 |
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 Present best estimate at extent of Taliban insurgency. While Taliban operate over roughly 45% of the country, they control a significantly smaller proportion of the population, their power being concentrated in very rural districts. On this map "Contested" districts range from nearly complete Taliban control with government and occupation forces confined to a single heavily besieged base as in Sagin district, to relatively quiet regions where their activity is confined to occasional attacks and low level organizing activity. I'm always struck by just how little information there is on much of Afghanistan. It's not like Syria where protests and battles are uploaded to facebook or youtube within hours. The "unconfirmed Taliban claim" areas of the map often have not have had reliable reports released on their status from either the government or the Taliban in years. I'm pretty sure both the Taliban and Afghan government are unsure who'se really in charge in some of the most remote regions, where locals pay little head to any outsiders presuming authority.
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