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HOW NOT TO FIGHT A WAR- MISSILE DEFENSE, IEDS, LOSING
AFGHANISTAN WAR IN WASHINGTON DC
AGHA H AMIN
Agha.H.Amin
In the Iraq War contrary to US claims none of the 80 primitive and bulky Iraqi Scud
Missiles fired by Iraq on Saudi Occupied Arabia or Israel were stopped by the much
propagated PATRIOT missiles.
A missile is something much higher in level than an IED ? Even in combating IEDs
conventional armies have failed in Afghanistan and Pakistan ?
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The bottom line is that one small nuclear missile launched on Japan , a US base
anywhere in Afghanistan,Iraq or South Korea can destabilise the whole world.
Anti missile defense is an area with few probabilities and imnnumerable enigmas and
improbables.
In 2006 I was asked by a state client to do an IED study in Afghanistan.The picture
that emerged was that the NATO was like a sitting duck when confronted with IEDs.
IEDs or fear of IEDs severely limited NATOs ability to patrol and dominate ground
and the trend became marked after 2006.Despite tall claims and much bravado IEDs
were the weakest link in NATO operations in Afghanistan and the same happened in
Pakistans FATA region between 2004 and 2013.
In Afghanistan as a contractor I personally saw the mincemeat that insurgent IEDs
made of US troops who rarely left their bases ? In Pakistans FATA region again I
personally witnessed how Pakistan Army was turned into mincemeat by the TTP
insurgents ?
Technology came to grief in Helmand and Waziristan and the IEDs have made so
called big and powerful armies act and behave like mice at the tactical level.
Mind you the only wars that are really being fought are Low Intensity Conflicts ,
which we know as terrorism and guerrilla warfare.
At the strategic and at the operational level down to the tactical level stability hangs
only by the skin of its teeth.
It appears that NATO and the US forces in Afghanistan were all along there on a
catwalk and did not give serious thought to real tactical and operational issues . The
prime stress was to avoid casualties and NATO and US troops , thanks to over
cautious , hole punching,take no risks, careerist commanders looking for the next
strike, lacked that burning desire to destroy the enemy !
Serious tactical discussion seemed to be lacking and there was empty and irrelevanttalk of winning hearts and minds and friendly militias.Both were nonsensical concepts
in a land of professional and cold blooded assasins , who enjoyed sniping and acted
with full initiative propelled by that killer blood lust to kill and maim , which was
sadly lacking in the sitting duicks that the NATO commanders had turned their troops
into ?
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The result ? Billions of US tax payers and NATO states tax payers money was spent
on Afghanistan and nothing was achieved in the tactical realm ? At the strategic level
the whole NATO and US Quixotic exercise called Operation Enduring Freedom and
its other Quixotic continuations were an undoubted failure as the Talibans strategic
centre of gravity in Pakistan and secondary centres of gravity in Iran and CARs were
not destroyed at all ?
THE PAKISTAN FACTOR
IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND PAKISTAN THE HISTORY OF THE RACES
THAT INHABIT PAKISTAN HAVE TO BE UNDERSTOOD ! BARRING
TRIBAL PASHTUNS THE PAKISTANIS HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY A
HOPELESS LOT.
EVEN PAKISTANS FOUNDER MR JINNAH HAD STATED ABOUT
PAKISTANS CORE PROVINCE PUNJAB . " I WILL NEVER GO TO THE
PUNJAB AGAIN , ITS A HOPELESS PLACE !
WITH A LITTLE MORE KICKING THE HOPELESS PAKISTANI
GENERALS AND POLITICIANS WOULD HAVE BEEN SQUEALING AND
SQUEAKING AND MUCH COULD HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED .
AS MACHIAVELLI SAYS ITS THE BOLD AND AUDACIOUS YOUNG MAN
WHO WITH HIS RUTHLESS VIOLENCE SEDUCES DAME VICTORY ? OR
WORDS TO THAT AFFECT ?
WITH A LITTLE MORE KICKING PAKISTANI GENERALS WOULD
HAVE BEEN BETTER HANDLED ? BUT THE QUESTION IS THAT DID MR
BUSH OR OBAMA HAVE THAT UNDERSTANDING OF HISTORY ?
But who cares ?
What is statesmanship ? That a social mobiliser must win the next elections or that his
party or henchmen must win the next elections by wooing as many illegal Hispanic
immigrants that they can ?
What is the idea of stability and security ? To rob a once prowd race of the second
ammendment right to bear weapons ?
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To Sum up strategic stability merely exists because so called rogue states like North
Korea are incompetent and stability has nothing to do with US competence !
As a soldier I have great sympathy with the could have been devastating US troops in
Afghanistan whose greatest enemies were their hole punching military commanders
and their myopic political leaders whose only aim was to win the next elections ? Asin Vietnam the US Army lost the war in Afghanistan because of ineptitude in
Washington and not in Vietnam !
Similarly in case of IEDs also NATO lost the tactical battle in Afghanistan after 2009
and Pakistan Army does not seem to be winning the tactical battle in FATA !
TAILPIECE
HOW NATO DEALS WITH CRITICISM OR ANYTHING THAT CAUSES
DISSONANCE WITH ITS OPERATIONAL AND TACTICALLY SPINSTER
COMMANDERS WHO HAVE NEVER SET A SQUADRON IN THE FIELD
NOR KNOW THE DIVISION OF BATTLE MORE THAN A SPINSTER ?
http://natural-beauty-pavocavalry.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-pashtuns-in-history-aghahamin.html?goback=%2Egmp_3141510%2Egde_3141510_member_255189123
pavocavalry.blogspot.comLet the pictures speak as the first part of this summing up of a sad chapter of history ! When I started preparing for
my first major bid in Afghanistan " Naghlu-Kabul" Electric transmission line I went for pre bid survey on Kabul
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Geoff Shaw Great to see this one up and happening! The faith
and fighting power of the Pashtuns has made them a thorn in the
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side of every foreign interloper who has attempted to bully
them. There has to be a reason the British wanted them in their
armies and, given their profound ability to actually enjoy a gun-
battle, I think modern Western armies should be considering thesame. I knew they would outlast
NATO (and I told a high-level NATO meeting that back in 2006
and was subsequently declared persona non grata at all meetings
since) but I had no idea that their out-lasting power/victory
would be as substantial as it appears to be (i.e., NATO will be
abandoning massive amounts of heavy equipment in
Afghanistan as they fear a turkey-shoot if they have to transporttoo much gear down to Karachi).1 day ago Like
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A second roadblock established to pre-empt possible attack on NATO pil tankers-
Morning 30 January 2011
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OLD RUSSIAN LARGE SCALE MAP OF THE GREAT BEND ON KABUL
ROAD THAT WE USED IN CASA 1000 TAJIKISTAN AFGHANISTAN
PAKISTAN ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINE SURVEY IN MAY 2008
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US and NATO military vehicles rarely patrol dirt roads where planting/deploying an
IED is easy and most effective
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