HOW NOT TO FIGHT A WAR- MISSILE DEFENSE, IEDS, LOSING AFGHANISTAN WAR IN WASHINGTON DC

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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

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CLICK ON PICTURES TO ENLARGE
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Click on photo to enlarge
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THE NEXT MORNING
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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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