Four hundred Afghan National Army noncommissioned officer recruits take the enlistment oath during a ceremony on Camp Ghazi in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 15, 2010. U.S. Army Gen. David H.Petraeus, commander, International Security Assistance Force, attended the event. U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Daylena Gonzalez US Military Build-Up In Kandahar Will Bolster Taliban, Warns Security Monitor -- The Guardian
Nato's counterinsurgency tactic shows no signs of success, says Afghanistan NGO Security Office.
The US military build-up in Kandahar is likely to further strengthen the hold of the Taliban over the vital southern Afghanistan city, a highly respected security organisation said today in a bleak report warning of record Taliban violence and rising civilian deaths across the country.
The report by the Afghanistan NGO Security Office, which monitors trends in violence on behalf of aid organisations, said Nato's counter-insurgency strategy was not showing any signs of succeeding amid rising violence, the unchecked establishment of local militias and a huge increase in attacks on private development workers across the country.
It revealed that June marked a record for Taliban attacks – up 51% on the previous year to 1,319 operations.
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My Comment: For a highly respected organization .... this is the first time that I have heard about them, and I am a person who has been following what has been happening in Afghanistan (on a daily basis) for the past 9 years.
The probable reason why I know very little about this organization is probably because this group clearly knows very little about counter insurgency tactics. Attacks by the Taliban have increased because of increased allies/Afghan efforts .... and these Taliban attacks have consistently failed .... to say that this will bolster the Taliban defies logic. But we should not be surprised .... this was the same argument that was used in Iraq before the surge .... increasing U.S. troops will result in an increase in support for Iraqi militants .... but (of course) the exact opposite occurred.
Jumping to the present situation in Afghanistan, if U.S. commanders are permitted to do the same strategy in Afghanistan as they did in Iraq, I suspect that they will be successful. But unlike Iraq the leadership in Washington is different .... and they have their own ideas and strategies on fighting this conflict.