{"id":28574,"date":"2012-02-01T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28574"},"modified":"2012-02-01T11:46:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:46:53","slug":"losing-the-psy-ops-war-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28574","title":{"rendered":"Losing the psy-ops war in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Taliban is ready to take back Afghanistan after the US withdraws, says Reuters in a link<\/a> sent to us by Tman;<\/p>\n

“The classified document in question is a compilation of Taliban detainee opinions,” he said. “It’s not an analysis, nor is it meant to be considered an analysis.”<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it could be interpreted as a damning assessment of the war, dragging into its 11th year and aimed at blocking a Taliban return to power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that interviews with Taliban POWs shows broadly that they’re convinced that all they have to do is wait out the US withdrawal in order to declare victory;<\/p>\n

“Obviously they are telling us what their idea is about the goings on of their campaign,” said Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobson, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF. “It is what they either do believe or what they want us to believe.”<\/p>\n

He said most of the captured fighters think that “they are still having a successful role” on the ground but that perception was wrong and NATO was not planning to change its strategy because of it in any way.<\/p>\n

“The insurgency is clearly on the back foot. We have been pressurizing them over the summer, we have taken vast amounts of land out of their hands and we have detained a high number” of militants, Jacobson said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, it looks like no one has told the Taliban that they’re losing.<\/p>\n

USAToday reports that BBC<\/a> has uncovered a secret document that admits what we all have known – that the Pakistani ISI knows where the top leaders of the Taliban and al Qaeda are stashed;<\/p>\n

The report is based on 27,000 interrogations with more than 4,000 captured Taliban, al-Qaeda and other foreign fighters and civilians.<\/p>\n

Though it has not yet officially commented, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has denied previous allegations that it supports or is linked to the Taliban.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Kabul correspondent said the report “fully exposes for the first time” the relationship between the Taliban and the ISI.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon has not seen the NATO report, a spokesman told the BBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s probably because no one takes us seriously anymore. Our “surges” are drips and drabs of manpower increases and we celebrate the pin point attacks with drones instead of forcing our enemies into dramatic conflagrations of massive firepower and commitment of forces.<\/p>\n

The only real battles are being fought at the enemies’ times and places of their choosing. NATO can claim to control large areas of actual geography, but they don’t control the battlefield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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