Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Counterinsurgency -- A Commentary

A U.S. Army crew chief scans to skies while en route to Field Operating Base Airborne in Afghanistan, during a recent support mission for U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, May 8, 2009. DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison

From The Captain's Journal:

The Wall Street Journal gives us an account of several terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days in Afghanistan that bear our attention. But before that, a few preliminaries.

As best as I can determine, the U.S. Army is on a mission to find itself, or self actualize, or something else like that. So is the Corps, just in a different way. The Corps is trying to figure out this whole Expeditionary concept with very expensive amphibious fighting vehicles that would never be used except for an amphibious assault (an assault the target of which we simply can’t fathom at the moment).

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My Comment: The Captain's Journal is always at his best when he writes from what is in his mind at the moment. His views on the change of leadership in Afghanistan and the evolving situation in Afghanistan is a must read.

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