Taliban vs US Military 10 yrs.

How is the Taliban and al qaeda standing up to

the most powerful Army ever in the history of the

world? For 10 years?

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An Army general has summed up the military challenge in Afghanistan: "We can't kill our way out of this thing."

Maj. Gen. John Campbell commands Regional Command East (R.C. East) along the border with Pakistan, an insurgent heartland and one of the hottest areas in Afghanistan. As the general said at a Wednesday press conference, the environment in R.C. East is, using the contemporary vernacular, "very, very kinetic. If you go up into Kunar [province], up into the Pech River Valley, they're fighting every single day up there ... very, very kinetic to this day."

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Why can't the US kill the enemy?

Why can't they kill their way out of Afghan

insurgency?

How have they been able to get recruits

to replace the dead for 10 years?

Where do they get the recruits?

What paradigm are they using ?

INFO WAR.

VOA has gotten on board, in a big way, recently.

the insurgents Producing a steady stream of

propaganda and lies thru Media,

Mosques, madrassas, Radio,

night letters, TV and the Internet.

Just this year the US military has addressed
the issue of radios for the Ummah.

The insurgents are better at getting their version
out than the US is at getting its version out.
They typically produce battle vids with causalities
10 to 100 times actual damages.

And vids and allegations on the Internet 15 min 
to 30 min after the battle.
Sometimes the US doesn't respond for a month
to Taliban allegations.
And for that month the Taliban allegations stand
without the truth.

They don't lose battles they have martyrs..
And claim the martyrs as a victory

They blame the CIA for the civilians they

kill, and even though 72% don't like the

Taliban they continue to get recruits.

And they put out their propaganda in 

all of the indigenous languages.

Ahmed Quraishi is a good example

of propaganda arm. Blatant lies. opinions

presented as facts, and misstatement and 

misleading headlines. And lack of sources.

http://www.PakNationalists.com

I've signed up 3 times to post on the site

and each time my registration has been

deleted.

If the US can disconnect this propaganda

machine they can interrupt the flow of recruits.

Insurgents we are Tracking, just one days work.

But does Info War work?
Well its all about winning the hearts and minds.
And the Taliban and al Qaeda seem to be having 
some success with it, standing up to the most
powerful military the world has ever seen with
just a few farmers and business men and Imams.
And WWII grade weapons. No Armour, no air force,
etc.

Leaving the Taliban and insurgent web sites
up may lead to intelligence collection but
it also leads to never ending file of recruits
and independent, spontaneous attacks in
the US.

Insurgent Info War at full RAGE

US is allowing insurgent recruiting by
tacit approval, leaving the web sites up.

You are collecting Intel on insurgent operations
you have enabled by leaving the insurgent web
sites up.

If we at Internet Anthropologist can take sites

down than so can the Intelligence community.

The insurgent sites are up with the tacit approval

of US intelligence agencys.

Make up your minds, stop the half measures.

Interdicting attacks looks good in the press,

but wouldn't it be better to cut down the attacks?

Even some US policy proposals are pushing, 
enabling  a 26,000 man Taliban surge.

Gerald

Internet Anthropologist

The Military has a doctrine for this, "Over whelming force"
In this case it should be a paradigm of "Over Whelming
Info"
Truly Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) 
in the Info WAR.


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