U.S. Army soldiers and Afghan National soldiers walk towards the district center to attend a meeting with local leaders to address regional concerns. The soldiers are based out of Combat Outpost Munoz, Paktika province, Afghanistan, and are deployed with Company B, 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew SmithSpecial Forces Troops Open Up New Front Against The Taliban In Helmand -- The Telegraph
British and US special forces are set to open a new front in southern Afghanistan in a bid to "break the back" of the Taliban insurgency.
A task force composed of members of British, US and Afghan special forces will be ordered to hunt down and kill or capture senior Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders as part of American-lead Nato surge into southern Afghanistan and the border region of Pakistan.
The operation to "decapitate" the Taliban leadership will begin in earnest in the next few weeks and form part of a series of "shaping operations" prior to a major offensive against key insurgent strongholds in central Helmand.
Read more ....
My Comment: This is the same strategy that was used to decapitate the insurgent leadership in Iraq. I am surprise that it has taken the coalition forces this long to implement this strategy.