Marines with Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, sort through their gear after arriving earlier this week. The 24th MEU will deploy approximately 2,400 service members under ISAF command to conduct full-spectrum operations in southern Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Robert Piper / Marine CorpsSaving Afghanistan -- Armed Forces Journal
Why the Iraq strategy isn’t the answer
Last fall, I returned from a six-month deployment to Iraq with the Navy, in which I worked as a tribal and leadership engagement officer in the Fallujah area. By the end of my deployment, Fallujah had changed from an area rife with al-Qaida’s presence and upward of 750 security incidents a month to one where al-Qaida was on the run and security incidents were down to about 80 a month. I saw what was needed to convincingly defeat an insurgency as we worked with local tribes and Iraqi security forces to clear and hold each of Fallujah’s 10 neighborhoods and numerous surrounding villages.
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My Comment: The bottom line from this article is the following ..... we must prepare ourselves to be in Afghanistan for a very very very long time. If this mindset is not there .... we will be doomed to defeat.
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