4yrs Since 9/11-What did the US do Right/Wrong Afterwards?What Would You Have Done?
09-12-2015, 05:22 AM
Quote: (09-12-2015 04:46 AM)Vanguard Wrote:I would like to agree with this, but the reality is that the winning of hearts and minds doesn't work. When you hire proxies to do your dirty work, you destabilize things, and your enemy will not respect you, or fear you. In fact, they will resent you. Even the proxies you hired will resent you. This is what happened in Afghanistan. A prime example is what I mentioned before about the betrayal of those Green Berets and Delta operatives in Tora Bora. When you give up control of the fighting, you give up control of the outcome.
Unlike, what Paracelsius suggested, you can't win a counter-insurgency war by "bombing the f*ck out of Afghanistan". The only way to defeat insurgency is to win the hearts and minds of the populace. In order to win the hearts and minds of the populace, you have to build rapport and train the indigenous population to fight for themselves. The Army Special Forces (Green Berets) are best equipped at doing this.