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Many readers are not old enough to remember reports from the field in the Vietnam war, so you may not see that the two notes here on the huge number of contractors hired to help run the war and whether the current version of Special Forces is helping us "win."
Paying all sorts of people in country get you dollar supporters who stay on your side as long as they think you are going to stay. Body counts of insurgent leaders killed are always meaningless in judging whether the enemy will or will not bounce back. Not the same war but similar mistakes being made.
Amplify’d from circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com
The US Department of Defense has 19 per cent more contractor personnel (207, 600) in Iraq and Afghanistan than uniformed personnel (175,000), according to a recent report from the US Congressional Research Service.
The figures for Afghanistan show that in March this year there were 112,092 contractors working for the DoD. Of these, 16,081 were US citizens and 17,512 were third-country nationals. The rest, 78,499, were Afghan nationals.
US Special Operations Forces (SOF).
US military officials have said that SOF raids have killed or captured 186 insurgent leaders and detained an additional 925 lower-level insurgents in the past 110 days. The raids have been particularly effective around Kandahar, they say, where there are "indications that IED attacks have decreased and that Taliban control appears to be weakening". It really does say this.Read more at circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com
See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/7vag
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