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To: LindyBill who wrote (20603)	12/21/2003 6:57:43 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (4) of 793719

Wow! That writer sounds like one of Westmoreland's staff officers. Like them, he made a visit to the field and now knows how to win the war. Placing 8 more "A" Teams along the Afghan/Iran Border will not win the war against terror. It will not win the peace either. Nor will stationing 8 more "A" teams along the Iraq/Iran border. Either this guy hates SF, or he watches too many Arnold movies. Some in the field recommend scaling back Bagram, and moving some functions over the border to Khanabad-Kharshi (K2) in Uzbekistan. As Bagram contracts, the number of fire bases should proliferate, even as they become more independent. In particular, we need more and smaller Advanced Operating Bases in southwestern Afghanistan close to the Iran border. At the moment, fewer than 100 Green Berets are covering southern Afghanistan in armed convoys: the addition of just another 100 or so of them would have a substantial force-multiplier effect. We also need more Provincial Reconstruction Teams--mobile civil affairs units working the soft, humanitarian side of unconventional war. As with the Green Berets, the addition of a relatively small number of these personnel will have dramatically positive consequences.

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