History’s lessons point to a radical method of war-fighting and peace-making, quite different from what the U.S. currently has in play. As Rod Serling used to say, “submitted for your approval.”
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I agree with your recommendations. How would you compare this strategy with the US’s relationship to the American Natives?
It is amazing how far backwards we have gone with the tribal engagement initiative in Afghanistan. The troops are no longer allowed to use force to arm or train tribal militia for fear that they will become ‘warlords’. This fear is supported by the central government in Kabul (warlords) who fear arming and training tribes would constitute a direct threat to their own corrupt power. These restrictions have basically neutered the tribal engagement mission and renders it ineffective. The tribes don’t want CF around for fear of retribution and we don’t provide them with a means to defend themselves while those who want to help CF can’t because we have confiscated their arms. Combine this with the ever increasing pressure to use CF to inject GoA influence into tribal affairs, we all know how much the tribes trust the central government and what we have now is a complete failure of TET. I pray that somebody realizes that we need to accept a certain amount of risk in the TET strategy. Yes, some will misuse the arms and training we give them but in my mind it just makes our job easier in separating the bad from the good. They naturally float to the top in Afghanistan. Good men are being killed by insurgents who are planting IED’s on all their routes to and from their TET’s and for what? Allow the highly trained men in our military like Maj Gant and his brand of warrior to do their mission and change this war around.