The Afghan War For US Troops Is Winding Down

The US 82nd Airborne Division are patrolling with Afghan soldiers in Ghazni, a neglected eastern province

Our Enemy Is Not Only The Taliban: We’re Fighting Time -- The Telegraph

As world powers discuss Afghanistan's future, American troops are finding new pockets of Taliban resistance close to Kabul.

THE American paratroopers crouched in silence as the roar and dust of the Chinook helicopters receded.

The only illumination of their heavy-laden figures was the desert starlight and the ghostly glow of night-vision scopes.

But Capt Caleb Ling and his men knew that in the surrounding darkness, in an area untouched by Hamid Karzai's weak government, Taliban insurgents would have heard their arrival and be waiting.

He and his soldiers from one of America's most illustrious infantry units are this summer carrying out what is being described as the final assault of the decade-long Afghan campaign.

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My Comment: For regular U.S. soldiers .... this offensive will probably be the last. Unfortunately .... with their safe havens in Pakistan .... the Taliban will only come back when the US military presence is gone.