{"id":1945,"date":"2008-06-25T22:03:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T02:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2008-06-25T22:03:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T02:03:41","slug":"taliban-launches-ambush-%e2%80%93-gets-ass-throttled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Launches Ambush \u2013 Gets Ass Throttled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ranger.jpg' title='ranger.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/ranger.jpg' alt='ranger.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwarjournal.org\/archives\/2008\/06\/afghan_us_forces_kil.php\">initiate an ambush <\/a>that was remotely thought out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US and Afghan forces fought a major battle with the Taliban and &#8220;inflicted heavy casualties&#8221; on the force just miles from the Pakistani border on June 20, Combined Joint Task Force &#8211; 101 reported. <\/p>\n<p>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. &#8220;Patrols in the ambush area continue to report additional enemy casualties,&#8221; the US military reported. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A hushed memory becomes a soul-searing shout:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome here Ranger!  Take a knee.  This is not how to execute a frigging ambush!  In fact, allowing you to graduate would impair this nation\u2019s defense posture by 30%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow 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?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow go find a tree and get yourself \u201ckuwala\u201d-fied.  You\u2019re fired PL!  Where\u2019s the APL?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Humor aside, there is a lesson in this.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when you kill the enemy\u2019s effective leadership.  They send out the amateurs.<\/p>\n<p>Combat is serious business and better left to the professionals; amateurs tend to get themselves and a whole bunch of comrades killed.  <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A note to the lads.  In a situation like this, don\u2019t 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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not how to initiate an ambush that was remotely thought out. US and Afghan &hellip; <a title=\"Taliban Launches Ambush \u2013 Gets Ass Throttled\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1945\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taliban Launches Ambush \u2013 Gets Ass Throttled<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}