From Westhawk:
Yesterday’s Washington Post story about the search for an alternative supply route into Afghanistan was another indicator of the vulnerability of the NATO-American strategy in that country. For seven years, the U.S. has had a military commitment, of varying size, to Afghanistan. If an alternative supply route into Afghanistan from the west and north was so obvious and simple, it surely would have been implemented long ago.
The fact is that such a route is neither obvious nor simple, and no desire for a “surge” strategy for Afghanistan is going to change that fact. Furthermore, the logistical constraints of military operations in Afghanistan apply equally to additional U.S. Army brigade combat teams or to a proposed doubling in the size of the Afghan army. Both alternatives for increasing allied combat power will require external, U.S.-supplied logistics support.
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Yesterday’s Washington Post story about the search for an alternative supply route into Afghanistan was another indicator of the vulnerability of the NATO-American strategy in that country. For seven years, the U.S. has had a military commitment, of varying size, to Afghanistan. If an alternative supply route into Afghanistan from the west and north was so obvious and simple, it surely would have been implemented long ago.
The fact is that such a route is neither obvious nor simple, and no desire for a “surge” strategy for Afghanistan is going to change that fact. Furthermore, the logistical constraints of military operations in Afghanistan apply equally to additional U.S. Army brigade combat teams or to a proposed doubling in the size of the Afghan army. Both alternatives for increasing allied combat power will require external, U.S.-supplied logistics support.
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