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You can not win a counter insurgency war. The enemy hides within the population, you are fighting an idea rather than an enemy force.Remember many years ago when Russia were in there and in the end they had to pull out.
Those fighting the Russians then were the Mujahideen well versed on the terrain and carried out a guerrilla war and hid up in the mountains/hills.
Remember seeing reports from their hideouts with TV reporter/s being up in the hills with them filming, it seemed they were the ‘good guys’.
When we went in and after what happened during Russia’s time there didn’t think it would ever end well.
We never went into win a war, though. We went into to stop Afghanistan being used as the bed rock for global terrorism, after that the main effort was to teach the government to fend for itself. We did, we did it well. Its not our fault that the government of that country is completely idiotic and greedy. I have more respect for the taliban then I do them.