An artilleryman from the Afghan National Army's 205th Corps fires a round from a D-30 artillery piece during an indirect fire support mission, Sept. 9, 2007. For the past 10 months, U.S. embedded mentors have been helping train Afghans on Forward Operating Base Wolverine in Zabul province.U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class David TriceFrom The Telegraph:
The US-led coalitions in Iraq and Afghanistan are being undermined by intelligence failures, according to a study of the two wars.
Commanders in the field are being overwhelmed by contradictory information and are often unwilling to share intelligence among allies, according to the confidential report.
It points to an example of Dutch pilots in Afghanistan who bombed targets on US orders, but were refused access to US "battle damage assessments" on what they had hit.
Forces at Camp Holland in southern Afghanistan comprise 13 different intelligence sections - including US, Dutch, and Australian - but there is minimal co-operation between them, the report found.
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My Comment: From what I am reading .... it appears that there is more of a lack of leadership from the White House on down rather than intelligence failures.
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