Afghan Offensive: Not Your Father’s D-Day…………….
“Senior NATO commanders and top Afghan officials have openly discussed the approximate time of Operation Moshtarak — the Dari language word for "together" — the size of the force and their objectives in news conferences, interviews and press releases that have been disseminated around the world and posted on government Web sites. Leaflets have been airdropped on the town. Though the exact time of the kickoff hasn't been disclosed, a "news article" posted Thursday on the British Ministry of Defense's site announced that operations involving "elements of the Royal Welsh, Grenadier Guards and Scots Guards" and Afghan forces "in preparation" for the Marjah attack had been underway for 36 hours. The unusual approach, according to U.S. and British commanders, is intended to persuade Marjah's civilian population to leave or turn against the Taliban, while pressuring the estimated 2,000 insurgents to flee the town or switch sides. "We're trying to signal to the Afghan people that we are expanding security where they live. We are trying also to signal to the insurgents, the Taliban primarily in this area and the narco-traffickers, that it's about to change," Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the U.S.-led international forces in Afghanistan, said Thursday in Istanbul, Turkey…………..”
Hey, it worked at Tora Bora didn’t it? Or did it?
Maybe they just want them to quit now and fight another day.
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