{"id":19708,"date":"2010-07-12T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19708"},"modified":"2010-07-12T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T15:47:08","slug":"younger-taliban-give-us-troops-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19708","title":{"rendered":"Younger Taliban give US troops pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE66B0A220100712\">Reuters<\/a> is reporting that our troops in Afghanistan is noticing a younger enemy than 10 years ago;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whether or not Ahmad and his 15-year-old friend had been laying homemade bombs or had even fired weapons at U.S. troops before, Best&#8217;s men will probably never find out, but the arrests illustrate a worrying trend reported from soldiers on the ground: that they are encountering an increasingly younger fighter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last eight to nine years there has been a dynamic change in the age of fighters. Most fighters now are between 14 and 18 years-old,&#8221; said Lieutenant Colonel Guy Jones, commander of 2-508th Parachute Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, based in Arghandab.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2002, fighters were 22 to 30-years-old and commanders were between 32 and 40,&#8221; said Jones who is on his fourth tour in Afghanistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This probably indicates that the Taliban is running out of recruits and so they drop thei target age for the new fighters. I know I&#8217;d take an extra second or two before pulling the trigger on a 15-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is reporting that our troops in Afghanistan is noticing a younger enemy than 10 years &hellip; <a title=\"Younger Taliban give US troops pause\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19708\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Younger Taliban give US troops pause<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}