Taliban Launches Ambush – Gets Ass Throttled

This is not how to initiate an ambush that was remotely thought out.

US and Afghan forces fought a major battle with the Taliban and “inflicted heavy casualties” on the force just miles from the Pakistani border on June 20, Combined Joint Task Force – 101 reported.

More than 55 Taliban fighters, including three senior leaders, were reported killed, 25 were wounded and three were captured by a combined air and ground counterattack after a Taliban force ambushed a patrol in Paktika province. “Patrols in the ambush area continue to report additional enemy casualties,” the US military reported.

A hushed memory becomes a soul-searing shout:

“Come here Ranger! Take a knee. This is not how to execute a frigging ambush! In fact, allowing you to graduate would impair this nation’s defense posture by 30%.”

“How in the hell do you trigger an ambush and lose half of a company and not kill one single OPFOR? Are you playing with me or just trying to get into the RTB record book as the stupidest PL ever?”

“Now go find a tree and get yourself “kuwala”-fied. You’re fired PL! Where’s the APL?”

Humor aside, there is a lesson in this.

This is what happens when you kill the enemy’s effective leadership. They send out the amateurs.

Combat is serious business and better left to the professionals; amateurs tend to get themselves and a whole bunch of comrades killed.

This is also a sign of an armed force on its heels. You can not sustain a fighting force in the field led by such amazing incompetence.

A note to the lads. In a situation like this, don’t worry about capturing the leaders and trying to fight their new habeus corpus rights; just kill them. Anybody this stupid probably knows nothing; just rid them from the gene pool.