What Are The German Soldiers Doing In Afghanistan?

German Bundeswehr army soldiers of the 4/452 military police battalion with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol at a roadblock during a mine sweeping mission in Kunduz October 6, 2008. Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, debates in a special meeting on Tuesday about raising the troop limit for the ISAF in Afghanistan. Picture taken October 6, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (AFGHANISTAN)

They Came, They Saw, Then Left The Afghan War Without A Single Mission -- The Scotsman

GERMANY has admitted its Special Forces have spent three years in Afghanistan without doing a single mission, and are now going to be withdrawn.

More than 100 soldiers from the elite Kommando Spezialkrafte regiment, or KSK, are set to leave the war-torn country after their foreign minister revealed they had never left their bases on an operation.

The KSK troops were originally sent to Afghanistan to lead counter-terrorist operations.

But Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the foreign minister, admitted they had not been deployed "a single time" in the last three years, despite a desperate shortage of Special Forces units in the country.

Troops from Britain's Special Boat Service and the SAS work round the clock, across Afghanistan, alongside US navy Seals and Delta Force, to target terrorists, arrest drug lords and rescue hostages.

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My Comment: No leadership. No direction. No political will.