Something Wicked Is Coming To The Taliban
The plan is to kick the Taliban’s child-killing butts. It’s no secret. In the Daily Mail it’s said the joint operation involving 15,000 troops from the United States, the U.K. and Afghanistan has been called “the biggest assault of it’s kind since Vietnam.” The mission is called Operation Moshtarak in Dari, meaning, “together.”
from the Daily Mail -
Colonel Richard Kemp, who commanded forced in Afghanistan in 2006, said the Taliban were already using children to lay IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and to throw grenades.
‘There will be some heavy fighting,’ he said. ‘The Taliban will have carefully placed their positions among the population centres.
‘They will know the area very well and will have prepared escape routes through tunnels, alleyways or buildings. They will fire on our troops and then run.
‘There will be a lot of IEDs, a lot of snipers and a lot of hit and run. We will probably have to brace ourselves for a large number of casualties.
“Biggest assault of it’s kind since Vietnam?” We’ll have to see about that.
Meanwhile, it’s been splashed all over the British news and on the British Ministry of Defence site…but I find nothing on the U.S. Department of Defense site (although there is a reference to the fact that our troops will have a link to a live Super Bowl feed). Well, I did find this…if you want to call that something.
It’ s not a secret mission. There’s a method to the madness of leaking the attack ahead of time. I just question why, when there are expected to be high casualties, there isn’t more about this strike in the U.S. news.
from McClatchy -
KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S., British and Afghan troops are poised to launch the biggest offensive of the war in Afghanistan in a test of the Obama administration’s new counterinsurgency strategy.
Military operations usually are intended to catch the enemy off guard, but for weeks U.S. and allied officials have been telling reporters about their forthcoming assault on Marjah, a Taliban -held town of 80,000 and drug-trafficking hub in southern poppy-growing Helmand province.
God bless our troops.